Week 4 - Irregardless

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a person uses a word that doesn't mean what they're trying to say, but regardless they still use it. Quoting the great Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride, "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."

The word irregardless is one of those words. It creates a double negative when you put together the prefix Ir- and the suffix -less. The word means without without regard for, so technically it means with regard for (it just doesn't sound that way). People use it for emphasis, because it sounds EVEN more without regard, but it just ends up making them sound silly. 

What's funny though is that when you look up the word in the dictionary or on google, the definition comes up as "regardless." Has it become so overused that it eventually took the same definition as regardless and became an actual word? That's like the word funner. It was overused incorrectly so many times that the dictionary added it as a "informal adjective." I still cringe when I hear the word funner. I guess I just like grammar the hard way and like to say "more fun" and "regardless" whenever I get the chance.

This week while I was looking up examples and definitions for our verbs assignment, I came across an incomplete sentence on a grammar website. I was in shock! A grammar website, trying to help people with better grammar, has a grammar mistake? This website was showing examples of future perfect tense. Thank goodness they had at least one correct sentence for me to use in my assignment. The sentence is "They will have enjoyed party." I think you might need an article there, person who wrote this sentence. Will they have enjoyed the party? A party? An amazing party? The world may never know.