Grammar Gripes and Other Psycholinguistic Squawkings

i know.

 

"Irregardless" is a pretty popular non-word to drop here at work when making a dramatic statement... so popular that we've changed it into "unirregardable" and other things. My personnel favorite, I think, was when someone declared "That's just fucking irrpregardastrous!"

My current time-never-passes is poking fun at sesquipedalian highbrows who should have learned a thing or two from our hero Babel: know your audience and keep the bullshit to a minimum. These kind of individuals, typically philosophy majors (at least here), that use $10 words in common conversation are almost always the kind of people that trollbait on forums with the use of the word "niggardly" and find themselves overjoyed by correcting those who are too lazy to hit the dictionary first. The use of corporate Newspeak and military jargon further intensifies this game.

Metamasturbation.

 

most of my grammar gripes have already been observed in this thread, but I would just like to lament the grammatically dubious and generally unimaginative writing of the patient notes at my job. When I take patient notes they are both clear and readable...and they flow from one matter to another with a logical progression. Which is as medical notes should be. Even if we are talking about pet patients. It drives me sort of crazy to see bad notes. hmph.

patient notes is one of my favorite parts of my job.

 

you're right, plan 9. i too have seen evidence of this evil trend of paying attention to words and their arrangements. and i agree with your assessment: people who pay attention to words and their arrangements may pretend that paying attention to words and their arrangements comes out interests of theirs....but really, it's all about making you personally feel inadequate.

those fucking philosophy majors....they ought to get real jobs and learn to communicate like regular americans.

 

My bad. Relax. I didn't mean to step on your beard (er, ego), Roachboy.

I was simply referring strictly to the colorful individuals here at work.

(Your corporate lingo is okay but your use of military jargon is really pathetic.)

I work 12-13-14 hours a day for months at a time without a day off.

The constant friction of frat boy versus ivory tower wears on me... because I'm neither.

Alternatively, your Other Option is identical to the one I offered Jazz earlier.

 

I don't even know what that means. Probably because I'm a total moron.

 

now now. no-one is a total moron. not even philosophy majors. which i wasn't, by the way. so i didn't take the earlier post personally--i just decided to play around with the lack of precision in it regarding what "here" meant.

 

Would somebody please turn down the volume of the cuffed-hand-on-taunt-skin here? It's deafening.

 

I know, I should have put a smiley after that. I was originally going to type "etc, etc, and so forth", but I choked.

 

here's a page full of grammatical moves that are correct except that people assert they aren't correct. so the error is in assuming an error in this cases.

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html

 

Oh, it's so good. Concise. Lowbrow.

 

that's because it's not a word.

irregardless:

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/irregardless.html

here's a list of errors from the same guy:

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

 

i used it on purpose. like the exclamation points that follow.

 

once you have to explain a joke, it takes all the punch out of it.