THINGS THAT MAKE ME FROTH AT THE MOUTH
English is an amazing language that has evolved over thousands of years with the influence of a grand parade of invaders. It's a marvelous cathedral with a Germanic foundation, Norse floorboards, and Norman French walls, buttressed by Latin and ornamented by words accreted from all over the globe, from canoe to algebra, dungaree, and even banana. It's a marvelous mongrel of a tongue, with an incredibly vast vocabulary and relatively serviceable syntax.

But do you know what word does NOT exist? Fucking "irregardless". IT'S NOT A WORD. You meant to say "regardless" or perhaps "irrespective", but "irregardless" is not. a. damn. word.

Also, there is a difference between "discrete" and "discreet". One means to be individually distinct, the other means to be circumspect or show prudence. Using one in place of the other means you are not prudent, although it may mean you are individually distinct from others around you in that you are a total moron.

Finally, learn the difference between "there", "their", and "they're", and while you're at it, learn the proper use of possessive apostrophes. I believe there should be a fine for signmakers that use possessive apostrophes on words that are simply plural. On the third offense, you should simply be dragged into the street and shot for polluting the public way with your poisonous wares.

/end rant
(herbivorous, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 7:30, 6 replies)

Your final sentence needs work, pedant!*

*nice ninja edit
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 7:32, closed)

As for irregardless:
www.onelook.com/?w=irregardless&ls=a
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 7:35, closed)

to be fair to the sign makers
they just produce what they're commissioned to, based on provided text.
I always assume they giggle a lot.....
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 7:42, closed)

hmm
David Mitchell has an interesting insight.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:36, closed)

If people use irregardless
it's a word. Just about every word you used in your rant would have had some dull language pedant foaming at the mouth, at some point in the past.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 8:12, closed)

Norse is germanic
Old Norse is also known as old north germanic. English, Dutch and German and west germanic. These are all members (along with a bunch more) of the Germanic family of languages and descend from proto-germanic. The south east of england was mainly west germanic peoples, the northern parts mostly Norse/Dane (back in the day where they were pretty much the same thing).

I win the pedant game.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:28, closed)