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[PillO]

Hey!

Stop being irregardless!

Did I get syntax right?

 

[PillO]

+1 for using "feckless".

Irfeckless?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

It is the over 65 Ontario snowbirds causing your troubles.

funny, the way I recall it, the plates said "Je me souviens"..

 

[GonePlaid]

It is the over 65 Ontario snowbirds causing your troubles.

Some, but the Northeasterners-on vacation or transplants-keep it interesting. Especially in "tourist areas"(most of the state), you'll see left turns outta the right lane and the reverse(no one reads signs)and other actions that leave you wondering how they survive.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

What's your opinion of ginormous?

Older Than They Look: 'Hipster,' 'Rap,' and More : Online

Meh. But i spend a lot of time with teens, so...

 

[PillO]

I did, was just messing with you.....
In reality, everything in engineering is easier in metric since most constants were ratified after the adoption of the SI system. US military is pretty much strictly metric for obvious reasons.
To think money wasn't decimal based at one point...

Everything in science (and engineering is applied science) is metric for a number of really good reasons.

15 February 1971 was decimalisation day in the UK when currency changed from 240d (old pence) to 100p (new pence) to the pound. As the currency was based on a pound of silver (in antiquity), 240 subunits made sense since there were 20 pennyweight in an ounce and 12 ounces in a pound.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Everything in science (and engineering is applied science) is metric for a number of really good reasons.

15 February 1971 was decimalisation day in the UK when currency changed from 240d (old pence) to 100p (new pence) to the pound. As the currency was based on a pound of silver (in antiquity), 240 subunits made sense since there were 20 pennyweight in an ounce and 12 ounces in a pound.

yeah..yeah..

 

[PillO]

Technically it's a word. But it should not be. It's an Abomination, right up there with the sorry excuse for a soldier by that name that the Incredible Hulk fought, driving his honey's father to even heavier drinking.

Using a REAL dictionary (Merriam-Webster), we see:
Irregardless was popularized in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its increasingly widespread spoken use called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word." There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead.

-Captain Grammar

So - irregardless ain't a word.

 

[PillO]

It makes me cringe when I see it. So unnecessary.

Lawyers live and die by the Oxford comma. I don't know what kind of endorsement that is...

 

[PillO]

I only use it when I "friend" people "online", "irregardless" of whether I'm being "wiretapped" as I enjoy a sip from my "hipflask".

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

So - irregardless ain't a word.

neither is ain't. like it or not, "irregardless" is a word.....

 

[PillO]

funny, the way I recall it, the plates said "Je me souviens"..

French for "I remember myself"

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

French for "I remember myself"

Correction: "I remember"

 

[PillO]

neither is ain't. like it or not, "irregardless" is a word.....
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So Americans speaking English is cultural appropriation of your former oppressors?

 

[Larry V]

Technically it's a word.

-Captain Grammar

So - irregardless ain't a word.

It is. Technically I am correct.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

So Americans speaking English is cultural appropriation of your former oppressors?

Ha! Well that oppression didn't last long did it? BTW, we don't really do "tea"..
Funny how things work, the other day I watched a recent UK film and the kids sounded more "American" than British.....hmmmm......guess you can't stop a good thing...

 

[PillO]

Correction: "I remember"

It is reflexive je me souviens. When reflexive, an object is required. So, "I remember" is "je souviens", "I remember you" is "je te souviens". "Je me souviens" is "I remember myself".

 

[Gaolee]

Stop being irregardless!

Did I get syntax right?

I don't know, eh!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

It is reflexive je me souviens. When reflexive, an object is required. So, "I remember" is "je souviens", "I remember you" is "je te souviens". "Je me souviens" is "I remember myself".

hmmmmm.....no....
“Je me souviens que, né sous le lys, je crois sous la rose"
irregardless, the point I was trying to make is that the crappy drivers were French Canadians not Ontarians(?)..

 

[GBassNorth]

Maybe this one could run with your Porsche’s on track days... I give you, the Volksrolet.

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Yikes! 475hp on roller skates! Could be way fun, or just plain deadly.
Probably ate the Porsche alive on the straights.