Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!msb From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Semantic Reversals (irregardless) Message-ID: <486@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 00:08:28 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.486 Posted: Thu Mar 7 00:08:28 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 01:41:21 EST References: <108@ISM780.UUCP> <947@dual.UUCP> <446@scc.UUCP> <950@dual.UUCP> Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 13 > => irregardless - adv. *Nonstandard*. Regardless. > > ... Honestly, now, who out there thinks that nonstandard words should > be included in the dictionary as acceptable usages? (This is a serious > question.) The serious answer is, those who believe dictionaries should be *descriptive* rather than *prescriptive* -- i.e., that they should tell you what someone else means when they use a word, rather than what you should mean when you use it. And they *didn't* say it was acceptable -- they labeled it "nonstandard". Mark Brader