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MP, you have heard this one before, people who use the "word" IRREGARDLESS.
Quote from: Prairie Dawn on April 12, 2013, 05:46:38 PMMP, you have heard this one before, people who use the "word" IRREGARDLESS. Yes, and it makes my nerves jangle. The non-word is complete nonsense; it's like a double negative, the prefix and suffix cancel each other out. I think the "ir" somehow migrated over from "irrespective". Another semantic pet peeve----people who use the phrase "point of fact". It's OK grammatically but it's always followed by a statement of the fact itself. It's like saying "Hey stupid, I'm about to give you a fact so pay attention." I was interviewing for a job one time and the interviewer found a way to shoehorn "point of fact" into every third sentence. By the end of the interview I wanted to give her the Cookie Monster treatment----------whipped cream pie right in the kisser! POW!
Quote from: Merry Prankster on April 13, 2013, 07:28:59 AMQuote from: Prairie Dawn on April 12, 2013, 05:46:38 PMMP, you have heard this one before, people who use the "word" IRREGARDLESS. Yes, and it makes my nerves jangle. The non-word is complete nonsense; it's like a double negative, the prefix and suffix cancel each other out. I think the "ir" somehow migrated over from "irrespective". Another semantic pet peeve----people who use the phrase "point of fact". It's OK grammatically but it's always followed by a statement of the fact itself. It's like saying "Hey stupid, I'm about to give you a fact so pay attention." I was interviewing for a job one time and the interviewer found a way to shoehorn "point of fact" into every third sentence. By the end of the interview I wanted to give her the Cookie Monster treatment----------whipped cream pie right in the kisser! POW! Another one of my personal favorites......henceforth! Hearing that word is like hearing fingernails run down a chalkboard! I went to a ADHD convention a few years back. All the "big guns" in the field were there. One of the psychiatrists, a quite famous psychiatrist in this particular area of study, punctuated every other sentence with HENCEFORTH. I was so irritated by this I started counting the number of times he said that word. My colleague found this very diverting! The grand total, you ask? Thirty four. In one hour.
Quote from: Prairie Dawn on April 13, 2013, 10:52:28 AMQuote from: Merry Prankster on April 13, 2013, 07:28:59 AMQuote from: Prairie Dawn on April 12, 2013, 05:46:38 PMMP, you have heard this one before, people who use the "word" IRREGARDLESS. Yes, and it makes my nerves jangle. The non-word is complete nonsense; it's like a double negative, the prefix and suffix cancel each other out. I think the "ir" somehow migrated over from "irrespective". Another semantic pet peeve----people who use the phrase "point of fact". It's OK grammatically but it's always followed by a statement of the fact itself. It's like saying "Hey stupid, I'm about to give you a fact so pay attention." I was interviewing for a job one time and the interviewer found a way to shoehorn "point of fact" into every third sentence. By the end of the interview I wanted to give her the Cookie Monster treatment----------whipped cream pie right in the kisser! POW! Another one of my personal favorites......henceforth! Hearing that word is like hearing fingernails run down a chalkboard! I went to a ADHD convention a few years back. All the "big guns" in the field were there. One of the psychiatrists, a quite famous psychiatrist in this particular area of study, punctuated every other sentence with HENCEFORTH. I was so irritated by this I started counting the number of times he said that word. My colleague found this very diverting! The grand total, you ask? Thirty four. In one hour.Irregardless is one of my pet peeves too. The one that really makes me want to scream is a new one on the market, started by teenagers I think, but now it seems everyone under 30 uses it in every sentence at least once, and sometimes more. That is the work "like".It's like I know that you are like stupid but I like the work like, like is like love except not like as much.