[Rhodes22-list] Grammar

[L. Sailor]

Joe,
   
  Here's another in the 'irregardless' category: 'prevenTAtive' as in 'preventative medicine'. No-o-o...the correct term is preventive....as in 'preventive medicine.'
   
  I also have to use you, Joe, as an example......just as you used a construction which is very commonly used & i would classify in the 'between you & I' category.....Please don't think I'm being critical...it is just a good example....
   
  You said 'unless they have a gun or are larger than us......That should be 'larger than WE...as your example is an elliptical sentence and what we are really saying is 'larger than we are large.....
   
  elle


Joseph Hadzima <josef508 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Hi Phillip:

Once upon a time I did look up the "term", and the
dictionary I uesd claimed it to be a "humorous, redundent
form of regardless". So I guess we can laugh at people
that use it (uless 
BTW, here is a link to a side story about the word.

http://www.hfac.uh.edu/English/classes/GU4322/items/irregardless.html

I fear that since somemany use it, it may one day be
considered correct; along with the most evil of all phrases
"very unique"!


joe/hadz


--- Philip <3drecon at comcast.net> wrote:

> It's object and direct object et al. The Dative,
> Accusative, Nominative and
> Genitive exist in German too (". . . in den Wagen" (acc)
> or ". . . auf dem
> Tisch" (dat) (in the car or on the table)). Since we
> don't parse the
> grammar that way anymore, nothing sounds strange to
> anyone and people add
> things to sound important. It is the same with the word
> irregardless. I
> knew an Australian fellow who used it incessantly. I
> tried to correct him
> and he insisted it was a legitimate word. I defied him
> to look it up and
> show me but he never would.
> 
> Philip
> 

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