https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/irregardless

Two constants of language:

1. It's always changing.
2. People are always complaining about the changes.

Imagine what Chaucer or Shakespeare would say about the way we speak today. Half the words we use, they would tell us, "are not words."

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,846 posts)

10. They list it as a word but stress that it's non-standard and its use should be avoided.

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Wed Dec 18, 2019, 02:27 PM

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FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

12. And Shakespeare, himself, added many words

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Wed Dec 18, 2019, 02:32 PM

Dec 2019

https://www.litcharts.com/blog/shakespeare/words-shakespeare-invented/

harumph

(1,910 posts)

15. Novelty is not necessarily creativity.

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Wed Dec 18, 2019, 02:44 PM

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FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

16. I don't think that creativity was any part of this discussion

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Wed Dec 18, 2019, 02:48 PM

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Rorey

(8,445 posts)

6. Being ignorant is an attribute to repubs. NT

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Wed Dec 18, 2019, 01:30 PM

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

7. Sure sign of ignorant white winger.

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Wed Dec 18, 2019, 01:34 PM

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2naSalit

(86,767 posts)

8. And they're proud of it too....nt

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Wed Dec 18, 2019, 02:21 PM

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

9. Amazing, isn't it? trump tapped into it.

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Wed Dec 18, 2019, 02:27 PM

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2naSalit

(86,767 posts)

11. Yeah...

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 18, 2019, 02:31 PM

Dec 2019

with a lot of help from the NRA and that bunch. Their manner of speech is that of junior high delinquents who never made it through grammar in seventh grade. Compared to the measured articulations of the Democratic speakers, it's just appalling.

Poiuyt

(18,130 posts)

13. How would you know?

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Wed Dec 18, 2019, 02:35 PM

Dec 2019

I can't understand a word he says. He talks like he has a mouth full of marbles.

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)

14. Collins talks fast in a hysterical pitch. Can't really understand a word he's saying!