Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 873882)

i literally will think you're a moron if you say 'irregardless.'

i don't care what fads dictate to dictionaries.

Originally Posted by The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed., 2000

"For more than a hundred years, critics have remarked on the incoherency of using literally in a way that suggests the exact opposite of its primary sense of 'in a manner that accords with the literal sense of the words.' In 1926, for example, H.W. Fowler cited the example 'The 300,000 Unionists . . . will be literally thrown to the wolves.' The practice does not stem from a change in the meaning of literally itself--if it did, the word would long since have come to mean 'virtually' or 'figuratively'--but from a natural tendency to use the word as a general intensive, as in They had literally no help from the government on the project, where no contrast with the figurative sense of the words is intended."

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 873879)

Bullshit.

Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 873923)

At a push you could say 'I prithee'

Originally Posted by Flint (Post 873924)

Well. Don't hold back, buddy, tell me how you really feel.

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 873931)

:blush:
OK. "Bullshit" is not meant to insult you, bullshit is for the idea that a dictionary should put incorrect definitions down for words, just because some people use the word incorrectly out of ignorance.

If the incorrect usage was deliberate, to make a point and convey meaning, then I could see making a note of it, but it's pure ignorance.