Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!dual!hav From: hav@dual.UUCP (Helen Anne Vigneau) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Semantic Reversals (irregardless) Message-ID: <950@dual.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 14:04:01 EST Article-I.D.: dual.950 Posted: Tue Mar 5 14:04:01 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 05:56:50 EST References: <108@ISM780.UUCP> <947@dual.UUCP> <446@scc.UUCP> Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 26 <*munch*> => Anyway, p. 692 of the American Heritage Dictionary => has: => => irregardless - adv. *Nonstandard*. Regardless. => scc!steiny => Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 ihnp4!pesnta -\ => 109 Torrey Pine Terr. ucbvax!twg --> scc!steiny => Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 fortune!idsvax -/ I'd say my face is red, except that I think the ones with the red faces should be the editors of AHD. Honestly, now, who out there thinks that nonstandard words should be included in the dictionary as acceptable usages? (This is a serious question.) Colloquialisms like "ain't" are one thing, but *wrong* usages? Helen Anne {ucbvax,ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!hav If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.