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Josquius

I want to get a dog soon. I plan to name it Doctor.
Partially a Dr Who reference.
Partially a reference to how they make people feel better.
But mostly so I can yell "Doctor! Doctor!" across the fields.
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mongers

Quote from: Tyr on July 01, 2020, 03:24:24 AM
I want to get a dog soon. I plan to name it Doctor.
Partially a Dr Who reference.
Partially a reference to how they make people feel better.
But mostly so I can yell "Doctor! Doctor!" across the fields.

:lol:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Syt

:weep:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

Quoteirregardless
adverb

ir·​re·​gard·​less | \ ˌir-i-ˈgärd-ləs  \

Definition of irregardless
nonstandard

: REGARDLESS
I told them that irregardless of what you read in books, they's some members of the theatrical profession that occasionally visits the place where they sleep.
— Ring Lardner

Frequently Asked Questions About irregardless

Is irregardless a word?
"Yes. It may not be a word that you like, or a word that you would use in a term paper, but irregardless certainly is a word. It has been in use for well over 200 years, employed by a large number of people across a wide geographic range and with a consistent meaning. That is why we, and well-nigh every other dictionary of modern English, define this word."

Does irregardless mean the same thing as regardless?
Yes. We define irregardless as "regardless." Many people find irregardless to be a nonsensical word, as the ir- prefix usually functions to indicates negation; however, in this case it appears to function as an intensifier. Similar ir- words, while rare, do exist in English, including irremediless ("remediless"), irresistless ("resistless") and irrelentlessly ("relentlessly).

Is irregardless slang?
Slang is defined as "an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages, arbitrarily changed words, and extravagant, forced, or facetious figures of speech." Nonstandard, on the other hand, is "not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language". While there may be overlap between these two categories, we label irregardless as "nonstandard" rather than "slang."

First Known Use of irregardless
1795, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for irregardless
probably blend of irrespective and regardless

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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PDH

Unirregardless of this, Syt, press on.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Admiral Yi

I'm going to disirregard that post.

The Brain

Something being a word doesn't make it OK to use it.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

The Minsky Moment

Merriam-Webster is fake news:

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Eddie Teach

Quote from: The Brain on July 01, 2020, 10:02:41 AM
Something being a word doesn't make it OK to use it.

For instance, the N word.

Nuclear.  :ph34r:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Savonarola

Happy Canada Day to all the Canadians.  Hope your day is at least 35% Canadian and accessible in both French and English.  :Canuck:
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

merithyn

Quote from: Grey Fox on June 30, 2020, 05:15:29 PM
If I had a dog, I would call him Richard.

My dog is named Kepler. My cat is named Tycho.

Should I get another dog I will likely call him Burt. :) I just like that name for a dog. ^_^
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Caliga

Quote from: Tyr on July 01, 2020, 03:24:24 AM
I want to get a dog soon. I plan to name it Doctor.
Partially a Dr Who reference.
Partially a reference to how they make people feel better.
But mostly so I can yell "Doctor! Doctor!" across the fields.
Will his doghouse be: bigger on the inside
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Barrister

Quote from: Savonarola on July 01, 2020, 12:06:25 PM
Happy Canada Day to all the Canadians.  Hope your day is at least 35% Canadian and accessible in both French and English.  :Canuck:

Dominion Day! :ultra:
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Barrister

I've never been so proud to be Ukrainian-Canadian. :D

Even if they misspelled #DominionDay. <_<
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Josquius

Bloody Canada stealing all the cheesy chips credit.
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