(September 18, 2015 at 1:05 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(September 18, 2015 at 12:45 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Tell me you didn't just say "irregardless", kingpin. Please.
Oh, you share one of my favorite bugaboos. Irregardless instead of regardless.
I had this explained to me. In African cultures/languages negatives don't function as a toggle. More negatives just add emphasis. It isn't a failure in logic, just a change of usage.
So antidisirregardless would mean absolutely without regard to .. to the nth degree.
Unlike here where we take the ir- as erasing the -less.