IRREGARDLESS is a valid word?!?!?!
LoL…I guess if QI/XI/LI/NU/MU and the like are okay I shouldn't be suprised. I'm not sure but I think Nostradamus predicted this, something about language becoming devoid of meaning or form.
Not that it matters, I doubt I'll ever get a chance to play it.
ack! lol
I feel your pain Gord.
I have never recovered from the word "boughten" becoming an acceptable word
As in I am serving a store boughten pie.
It's just whorable!
that one drives me up a wall too! hahaha!
I was afeared this would happen. Aight, I guess we'll just have to accept that its idiomatic…Don't akse me to speech good english anymore, there's no point.
Well, it is a valid word, but surely one to be avoided if possible.
I'm off to start a new FB group named: I don't care if "irregardless" is a valid word; playing it makes you look like a dumbass.
Deeply whorable, indeed.
I would never be able to play that word. It's grammatically incorrect and has driven me crazy since I was old enough to know better.
I guess that means if we use a wrong word incorrectly for long enough, it will attain dictionary status. To me it's not the same as something like "cromulent" which was obviously made up. This is just a word that people have used incorrectly for years. Giving it status by making it acceptable is wrong.
Why have any language rules if they're not going to mean anything? Hey, I think I'll just start spelling "nucular" this way all the time. Eventually I'm sure that "nucular" will make its way into the TWL or SOWPODS dictionary as well.
~shakes head in sadness~
If you guys had an "Académie", that would not happen, haha! But then people would complain, saying that language wants to be free.
"Language" can't "want" to be anything as it doesn't have any feelings.
But I'll join your group.
My mother was a total grammar Nazi. I can distinctly remember using the word "boughten" when I was a little girl and my mother having an absolute conniption.
Tu parles de L'Académie Française?
I don't know if you're Quebcois (enough aigus and other accents) but you should hear the french they speech dare….especially in Montreal, every turd word is anglaiche.
yep! lol
I was just in Montreal during Thanksgiving. Also my daughter is just learnig French and was taught la clock for clock! grrrrrrrrrrrrr
What is this word "boughten" I've never heard of it What is it supposed to mean?
Sorry, I will have to pull out my "figure of speech" card here. I'm keeping the "poetic license" one for extreme cases.
Actually, I am from France (I have been to Québec once, and it was not always easy to understand, but I had a great time).
You should see France. It's almost as bad with the younger generation. And when the language is completely destroyed, the "académiciens" will throw their hands up in the air and say "Ah, c'est la vie!"
Francais c ma 2eme langue, mais c facile ici a Canada…si on ne sait pas le mot francais il y a juste a ajouter le mot anglais et la majorite du monde vont le comprendre :-)
It's supposed to take the place of "bought" as in, I didn't have time to make one, so I took a store boughten pie to the party.
That's terrible! Not as bad as irregardless but it's up there I hope that doesn't catch on here… I would have to slap some faces!
The other "word" that was included in the dictionary at the same time was YOUSE.
As in "Youse guys are so funny"
Or " I thought youse guys were bringing the boughten pie"
Irregardless, whoever allowed these words into any dictionary is actively evil.
I just had someone use poohs as a word. What is this the plural of?
Attention Gord! Tu sais qu'il y a déjà une guerre entre Québec et Ontario.
Don't make things worse! I was born in England but grew up in Québec and I live with a Québécois. And I speak almost flawless French and Québecois and both versions of the language have their little idiosyncrasies as do all languages. Check out this link for more info on our colourful dialect. http://perso.orange.fr/fre
poohs is the plural of pooh
http://www.scrabulous.com/
you can check out any word that is valid here.
It is not a plural but a conjugated form, as pooh is also a verb, at least that is how I saw it.
sorry to barge in like this but perhaps poohs are what would greet youse in the morning if you fed your dog the boughten pie that youse knew was nucular but you put in his dish irregardless? [sic]
Haahaa,
apparently you are playing the Bronx version of Scrabble!
au contraire… 'youse' is very widely used (colloquially) here in Ireland… as a little exercise in trivia i've just consulted the Oxford: 'youse' is entered, as are 'irregardless' and 'poohs' (pooh, incidentally is both a noun and a verb). 'nucular', on the other hand is not. seems as though all those moves, apart from nucular, are perfectly valid, albeit informal /or technically incorrect. :)
~edited~
ps: here's a grand Irish word borrowed from S.Africa and a potential bingo to boot… 'tackies', they are what every irish kid wore in the 70s/80s… we never had trainers! lol
Oh, Fiona, that was fantastic. I'm so glad I named my cat after you!
I am from Baltimore, where many people warsh dishes in their zinks and I now live in Chicawgo, where many people watch Da Bearsss and eat brats and Eyetralian sauseeeeg.
As you may imagine, many of them write the way they speak!
I must ask .. what are tackies and trainers? Are they like rain boots?
well, actually we did have trainers… we just didn't know it then, lol
tackies = trainers = sneakers
aside: is your cat a redhead? mine is, named tickles (another bingo potential!)
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