• JWBananas@startrek.website
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    2 years ago

    Just because … doesn’t mean …

    I hate this extragrammatical idiom so much.

    But given that colloquial usage trumps all else when it comes to driving the evolution of language, most people could care less.

    • Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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      2 years ago

      Interesting choice given the way that’s been shifting slowly back to the more accurate form in the past however many years.

      If colloquial usage did trump all, irregardless would’ve been acknowledged as a correct word well before I was born. It may be the driving force but it’s hardly the only, or even constantly deciding, factor