made up words

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Irregardless....although one of my ex's used it, irregardless of it's made-up word status.

I can't help it, I lose a great deal of respect for someone who uses that one... especially when they use it a lot. That happened quite a bit in my old office, there were three or four who LOVED that word.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

I can't help it, I lose a great deal of respect for someone who uses that one... especially when they use it a lot. That happened quite a bit in my old office, there were three or four who LOVED that word.

I feel that way about people saying "anywayS." There are many co-workers and educators and higher-ups who simply should know better.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I feel that way about people saying "anywayS." There are many co-workers and educators and higher-ups who simply should know better.

Solecisms are bad; it's that simple.

Something the pointyheaded Bush Bashers don't mention is that roughly a third of Congress, House and Senate, say "nucular." "Misunderestimated," however, is probably in the national lexicon to stay for at least a decade and maybe permanently: it concisely nails a certain kind of error, and does it while being amusingly, rather than gratingly, country.

Learned coinings aren't so bad: the anywaysers and the irregardless-gushers suffer from being hemipygian. While I'm trying to promote the word, I'm not so enthusiastic about any related words such as a noun like hemipygine, meaning a hemipygian person. It's too ambiguously spelt.

Axing a question fills me with an urge to gesture.

The US military spokesmen's inability to pronounce "cache" correctly makes me sigh. Were there NO military men in Iraq and Afghanistan who hailed from places with French placenames like Cache la Poudre, near Fort Collins, Colorado? It rhymes with "cash," guys.