NFL 2014

[Blindgreed1]

It's nonsense. regardless means with no regard. Irregardless means what exactly?

"Irregardless" means the same thing as "regardless", Gunnar. It's been an English language word for over a century. Similar to "flammable" and "inflammable".

There's no valid disputing that "irregardless" is a word, and no valid disputing that it's a redundant non-standard word either.

Sometimes it's natural for me to think it in place of "nevertheless" or for emphasis, so I go ahead and use it on rare occasion -- knowing full well that the sight/sound of it is frowned upon by sticklers. That may be why I don't have a "forbidden word" list for non-academic and non-professional writings and conversation -- I don't mind be a stickler tickler.

Okay then prove the validity by nomenclature. Flamable means it can catch on fire. Inflamable means it's flame resistant. Regardless means without regard. Please define irregardless by means of nomenclature the same way I did above without sounding like a moron. Impossible. Not a word. There are a lot of words in the english language that are ignorant and have been around for a long time. Doesn't add to their validity.

Using flamable and inflamable was a bad choice to use in comparison because there is a positive and negative there. Regardless is already negative, the positive would be regard.