RE: Inflammable vs. flammable

Subject: RE: Inflammable vs. flammable
From: "Tariel, Lauren R" <lt34 -at- saclink -dot- csus -dot- edu>
To: "Ron Hearn" <RHearn -at- cucbc -dot- com>, "Techwr-l" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:13:32 -0700

From: Ron Hearn



>This reminds me of people who use regardless and irregardless

>interchangably. I sometimes ask if they believe being responsible is

>that same as being irresponsible.



Shouldn't that be "irresponsibleless" or "ir-irresponsible" or something else with double-negative?



I've wanted to people who use "irregardless" that "'irregardless is not a proper word (it's a dialectal misuse of English, IMO), regardless of whether they have regard for it." Oh <sigh>, irrespective of opinions about "irregardless," one must be nice sometimes.



Lauren

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References:
Inflammable vs. flammable: From: Cardimon, Craig
RE: Inflammable vs. flammable: From: Ron Hearn

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