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UCFhonors
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hmmm
Well shit, it checks out.
Then uses a word.. that isn't even a word
UCF honors program grad.
Irregardless is a word.
Are you just trying to make yourself look UCFoolish?
By any objective criterion, irregardless is a word. It has an established form and meaning, it's used in speech and occasionally in writing, and it's even found in reputable dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and The Oxford English Dictionary. When someone uses irregardless, you know exactly what it means, even if you want to pretend otherwise.
This is because words get their wordhood not from etymology or logic or some cultural institution granting them official status, but by convention. The greatest example of this is from my boy, and the greatest writer of the English language, Bill Shakespeare. Shakespeare invented over 1,500 words. Some of his invented words were of the colloquial variety like eyeball while others are words that seem like we can't live without today like critic, control and lapse - as in you had a lapse of control when opening your mouth to try to criticize someone you should not have.
That's your lesson for today.
My next lesson will be on how ad homiens are just an admission that you lack the intellectual capabilities to refute a point.
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