[Rhodes22-list] Grammar

[Joseph Hadzima]

elle

With luck I'll remember your correction, then you will have
taught this old dog a new trick!  :-)

joe/hadz

--- "L. Sailor" <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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HADZ (a.k.a. joe)

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