| Gristle wrote:
>I seem to recall reading that (i think it was some Harvard language commision or something)a double negative doesn't necessarily cancil itself out. It's just an overly strong negative, but it depends on the context that it's used in.
Well, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (man, this Webster guy goes through dictionaries even faster than my Scrabble opponents...) says irregardless is ``nonstandard''. What, exactly, that means when referring to the English language, I don't know. :-) |
