Irregardless, Grammar is our Friend

[chonies]

Thank you, Mrs P. It’s incredibly grating and I also hate being cast in the role of rigid old crank.

[madangela]

Nov 15, 2017 13:48:04 GMT -4 laurenj said:

Nov 15, 2017 13:19:04 GMT -4 batmom said:

I was listening to a podcast the other day and the other person kept saying "wheelbarrel" over and over. It was awesome.

I have a co-worker in her early 30s who honestly thought that was correct until last year, when one of us caught her saying it and corrected it. She had no idea.

I have another co-worker, who besides committing the crime of saying "irregardless" repeatedly, says "automagically" and I have no idea whether she's joking or not. Based on what I know of her (very smart person, but moreso in the area of numbers and finance), I'm going to say it's not a joke.

I have had not one but two boyfriends who said “chester drawers” (chest of drawers).

[chonies]

Sept 17, 2017 20:45:31 GMT -4 LAX said:

Thanks for all the info chonies.
As I feared, the answer is complicated but I feel less like a cultural villain for using 'the' in the context I did.

I forgot about this discussion until I posted about my uptalking coworkers? [laughs/cries]

A recent episode of This American Life touched on this exact thing:

Ira Glass:So Parker, let's talk about our disagreement about the Jews.

Parker:It's not a disagreement about Jewish people, Ira.

Ira Glass:Listen to how you said that.

Parker: What did I say? I said Jewish people.

Ira Glass: You mean the Jews?

Parker:Jewish people.

Ira Glass:The Jews.

Parker: Jewish people. I mean, I get the irony of me telling you it's Jewish people, but it's Jewish people.

Depending on your feelings about This American Life, I recommend listening to it or reading the transcript because they go on about whether it's a generational thing or an in-group choice, and Ira Glass is delightfully gleeful about the whole topic.

[Gigiree]

I've never heard that "the Jews" was considered a possible slur. Why and in what context would it? I'm confused. . .

[batmom]

Seen on the side of a food delivery truck "Fresh Cut Meat Daily in Town." It's like all the words were written separately, someone dropped them, then slapped them on the side of the truck.

[putch]

If I used the type of grammar that most use today, my high school English teachers would hunt me down and beat me. I'm so tired of people using "seen" when it should be "saw." Recent examples: "My husband seen it fall..." and "I seen a sign that ABC is hiring."

I just want to reach through my monitor and strangle people.

[ratscabies]

Presented without comment:

THIS!

OK, maybe a LITTLE coment.

[laurenj]

It's "imporTant" with a T, not "imporDant" with a D.

This message brought to you from a one-hour conference call in which the main speaker repeated this word about a hundred times and the pronunciation was driving me insane.

[chonies]

Oh god! One of my colleagues pronounces gluten as "glue-den" which drives me freaking bananas, even more so because they say it often! Because they are glue-den intolerant!

[felinedom]

Nov 2, 2018 14:23:50 GMT -4 laurenj said:

It's "imporTant" with a T, not "imporDant" with a D.

This message brought to you from a one-hour conference call in which the main speaker repeated this word about a hundred times and the pronunciation was driving me insane.

Similar to real estate shows where the buyers are looking for harTwood floors!