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		<title>By: strangeart</title>
		<link>http://mockable.org/the-birth-of-a-secret-society/#comment-1552</link>
		<dc:creator>strangeart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can also counteract it with &quot;disirregardless&quot;.  They never get it, though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can also counteract it with &#8220;disirregardless&#8221;.  They never get it, though.</p>
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		<title>By: kristin</title>
		<link>http://mockable.org/the-birth-of-a-secret-society/#comment-1521</link>
		<dc:creator>kristin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Limey - you&#039;re right. I read what you wrote all wrong. Oops.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Limey &#8211; you&#8217;re right. I read what you wrote all wrong. Oops.</p>
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		<title>By: mockers</title>
		<link>http://mockable.org/the-birth-of-a-secret-society/#comment-1519</link>
		<dc:creator>mockers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A man once wrote in to Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla at &quot;The Man Show&quot; and asked how he might be able to tell fake breasts from real breasts.  Their response was something like, &quot;If you can see them, they&#039;re real.  Don&#039;t worry about it.&quot;  

Using this line of reasoning can help to justify &#039;irregardless&#039; as a word.  An illogical double-negative of a word, but a word nonetheless.  Use it all you want...I&#039;m just gonna jam the fingers of my left hand into my left ear and call you an asshole behind your back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A man once wrote in to Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla at &#8220;The Man Show&#8221; and asked how he might be able to tell fake breasts from real breasts.  Their response was something like, &#8220;If you can see them, they&#8217;re real.  Don&#8217;t worry about it.&#8221;  </p>
<p>Using this line of reasoning can help to justify &#8216;irregardless&#8217; as a word.  An illogical double-negative of a word, but a word nonetheless.  Use it all you want&#8230;I&#8217;m just gonna jam the fingers of my left hand into my left ear and call you an asshole behind your back.</p>
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		<title>By: Limey</title>
		<link>http://mockable.org/the-birth-of-a-secret-society/#comment-1518</link>
		<dc:creator>Limey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kristin, you misunderstood the point I was trying to make. I know inflammable is valid, I was saying it&#039;s like irregardless, in that people often falsely think it&#039;s a mistake. Same as burned/burnt, which probably makes the Houghton Mifflin people throw their beans at the wall.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kristin, you misunderstood the point I was trying to make. I know inflammable is valid, I was saying it&#8217;s like irregardless, in that people often falsely think it&#8217;s a mistake. Same as burned/burnt, which probably makes the Houghton Mifflin people throw their beans at the wall.</p>
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		<title>By: Shiny Rod</title>
		<link>http://mockable.org/the-birth-of-a-secret-society/#comment-1517</link>
		<dc:creator>Shiny Rod</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Being that the word supposedly emerged from the midwest(Indiana) gives suspect to me. Nothing good can come from that irregardless of what it means.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being that the word supposedly emerged from the midwest(Indiana) gives suspect to me. Nothing good can come from that irregardless of what it means.</p>
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		<title>By: kristin</title>
		<link>http://mockable.org/the-birth-of-a-secret-society/#comment-1516</link>
		<dc:creator>kristin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry Limey, inflammable is a word. I do agree that it is confusing though, and needs to go.

from Merriam-Webster (excessive quotation marks are theirs):

&quot;Combustible&quot; and &quot;incombustible&quot; are opposites, but &quot;flammable&quot; and &quot;inflammable&quot; are synonyms. Why? The &quot;in-&quot; of &quot;incombustible&quot; is a common prefix meaning &quot;not,&quot; whereas the &quot;in-&quot; of &quot;inflammable&quot; means &quot;in&quot; or &quot;into.&quot; Dating back to 1605, &quot;inflammable&quot; descends from the Latin inflammare (&quot;to inflame&quot;), combining the in- prefix with flammare (&quot;to flame&quot;). &quot;Flammable&quot; also comes from flammare, but didn&#039;t enter English until 1813. In the early 20th century, firefighters worried that people might think &quot;inflammable&quot; meant &quot;not able to catch fire,&quot; so they adopted &quot;flammable&quot; and &quot;nonflammable&quot; as official safety labels and encouraged their use to prevent confusion. In general use, &quot;flammable&quot; is now the preferred termed for describing things that can catch fire, but &quot;inflammable&quot; is still occasionally used as well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry Limey, inflammable is a word. I do agree that it is confusing though, and needs to go.</p>
<p>from Merriam-Webster (excessive quotation marks are theirs):</p>
<p>&#8220;Combustible&#8221; and &#8220;incombustible&#8221; are opposites, but &#8220;flammable&#8221; and &#8220;inflammable&#8221; are synonyms. Why? The &#8220;in-&#8221; of &#8220;incombustible&#8221; is a common prefix meaning &#8220;not,&#8221; whereas the &#8220;in-&#8221; of &#8220;inflammable&#8221; means &#8220;in&#8221; or &#8220;into.&#8221; Dating back to 1605, &#8220;inflammable&#8221; descends from the Latin inflammare (&#8220;to inflame&#8221;), combining the in- prefix with flammare (&#8220;to flame&#8221;). &#8220;Flammable&#8221; also comes from flammare, but didn&#8217;t enter English until 1813. In the early 20th century, firefighters worried that people might think &#8220;inflammable&#8221; meant &#8220;not able to catch fire,&#8221; so they adopted &#8220;flammable&#8221; and &#8220;nonflammable&#8221; as official safety labels and encouraged their use to prevent confusion. In general use, &#8220;flammable&#8221; is now the preferred termed for describing things that can catch fire, but &#8220;inflammable&#8221; is still occasionally used as well.</p>
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		<title>By: Limey</title>
		<link>http://mockable.org/the-birth-of-a-secret-society/#comment-1515</link>
		<dc:creator>Limey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Homer Muffin who? As Jed down the street would say, I could care less. English usage from Bostonians?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Homer Muffin who? As Jed down the street would say, I could care less. English usage from Bostonians?</p>
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		<title>By: Taiwan On</title>
		<link>http://mockable.org/the-birth-of-a-secret-society/#comment-1513</link>
		<dc:creator>Taiwan On</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From Houghton Mifflin:

Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.

So @Limey, I consider that you have blundered.  In a blizzard.  Blimey!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Houghton Mifflin:</p>
<p>Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.</p>
<p>So @Limey, I consider that you have blundered.  In a blizzard.  Blimey!</p>
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		<title>By: Knucklehead</title>
		<link>http://mockable.org/the-birth-of-a-secret-society/#comment-1512</link>
		<dc:creator>Knucklehead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t care if it IS in the dictionary, it&#039;s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t care if it IS in the dictionary, it&#8217;s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.</p>
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		<title>By: WB in OH</title>
		<link>http://mockable.org/the-birth-of-a-secret-society/#comment-1511</link>
		<dc:creator>WB in OH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe the secret society could have lunch here:http://www.irregardless.com/
And leave a small suitcase nuke behind as it looks a little on the douchey side!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe the secret society could have lunch here:http://www.irregardless.com/<br />
And leave a small suitcase nuke behind as it looks a little on the douchey side!</p>
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