Irregardless is a word: deal with it!

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irrespective + regarless = irregardless.

It may not be hoity-toity English from across the pond, but it sure is American. 👍

Anyway, back on topic: I think the point stands about who gets into medicine for the right reasons and who doesn't and the detrimental effect it has, to a degree, on American healthcare. I have a friend who's Hispanic with a 3.8 GPA, 31 MCAT and she didn't get into the 7 TMDSAS schools she applied to. She works harder than anyone I know and she's as sweet and personable as pie (even though a pie isn't a person...unless it's someone in a pie costume 😛). But she did not get accepted anywhere!! This girl was planning to go home back to south Texas and serve in those horribly underserved counties.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, you have my cruddy UT Southwestern second year teaching my worthless Kaplan MCAT prep class, bragging about how she's going to make $400K+ a year and work 20 hour weeks with her "run out the clock and go shopping" mentality. This girl surely could have found another job to make that type of money, but she choose this career because of the "prestige" and it's beyond deplorable, in my judgemental opinion.

After having finished this admissions process and being accepted somewhere (thank the lord!), I just have to say I have so little respect for the admissions committees and policies of Texas medical schools. They talk a good talk about recruiting future primary care physicians to meet the needs of underserved Texans, but it's all talk and no substance.

 

[riceman04]

irrespective + regarless = irregardless.

It may not be hoity-toity English from across the pond, but it sure is American. :thumbsup:

Anyway, back on topic: I think the point stands about who gets into medicine for the right reasons and who doesn't. I have a friend who's hispanic with a 3.8 GPA, 31 MCAT and she didn't get into the 7 TMDSAS schools she applied to. She works harder than anyone I know and she's as sweet and personable as pie (even though a pie isn't a person...unless it's someone in a pie costume 😛). But she did not get accepted anywhere!! This girl was planning to go home back to south Texas and serve in those horribly underserved counties.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, you have my cruddy UT Southwestern second year teaching my worthless Kaplan MCAT prep class bragging about how she's going to make $400K+ a year and work 20 hour weeks with her "run out the clock and go shopping" mentality.

After having finished this admissions process and being accepted somewhere (thank the lord!), I just have to say I have so little respect for the admissions committees and policies of Texas medical schools. They talk a good talk about recruiting future primary care physicians to meet the needs of underserved Texans, but it's all talk and no substance.

Welcome to american policy 101 in general

 

[tigress]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=irregardless

Usage Note: 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 fine, you're welcome to use it. You'll just sound uneducated.

 

[jebus]

Both miriam and webster agree that irregardless is a word. But weren't they both hoes?
Will you be upset if I call you a antediluvian dandy fop? I don't know what it means but it seems appropriate for you.

 

[UCDavisdude]

lol

 

[Anastasis]

Anyway, back on topic: I think the point stands about who gets into medicine for the right reasons and who doesn't and the detrimental effect it has, to a degree, on American healthcare. I have a friend who's Hispanic with a 3.8 GPA, 31 MCAT and she didn't get into the 7 TMDSAS schools she applied to. She works harder than anyone I know and she's as sweet and personable as pie (even though a pie isn't a person...unless it's someone in a pie costume 😛). But she did not get accepted anywhere!! This girl was planning to go home back to south Texas and serve in those horribly underserved counties.

That's sad because she would be really appreciated in the Valley. Did she go to PanAm or somewhere else?

 

[UserNameNeeded]

That's sad because she would be really appreciated in the Valley. Did she go to PanAm or somewhere else?

I'm not exactly sure where exactly from South Texas she's from. I remember her saying it's some small town 30 miles from Laredo. She's getting her Physics degree from UNT now. Where's PanAm?

I talked to her right before Christmas and she was so excited (in her usual, skeptical way) about getting interviewed at San Antonio and Houston. I don't think she got any more invites, but when I called her this week talking to her on the phone...it was so heartbreaking. 🙁 I was on the verge of tears after the short convo.

I know she's going to be a success some how, some way in the future because people like that are hard to keep down, but I just wish she'd have been successful now for her sake and for the sake of the people in her hometown.

 

[omgwtfbbq?]

Ha! tiger, I did the same thing - went straight to dictionary.com

My 2 cents : if irregardless has the following definition : see: regardless

just use the word regardless.

 

[UserNameNeeded]

::sigh::

I guess no one gets the twisted humor in using "irregardless." Oh, well!

I remember how traumatic it was for me to not get a perfect score for a history class a couple of years back all because my prof said "societal" wasn't a word. I should have substituted "social" for it. And, now...I see it on dictionary.com as a word. That witch! 😡

 

[jebus]

I get the humour. I used to work with an Argentinean who used it all the time except he really rolled the r's. So, at that job, after he left, we all used irrrrregardless at every opportunity.
Nelson also used to confuse "always" and "never". "No, no, I never do it the right way." Anyway...

 

[Its_MurDAH]

I get the humour. I used to work with an Argentinean who used it all the time except he really rolled the r's. So, at that job, after he left, we all used irrrrregardless at every opportunity.
Nelson also used to confuse "always" and "never". "No, no, I never do it the right way." Anyway...

Dude...i didn't wanna say this before but your avatar creeps me the hell out.

I think i actually had a nightmare about it...

 

[Ypo.]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=irregardless

So fine, you're welcome to use it. You'll just sound uneducated.

Wow. I never realized it wasn't a real word. It certainly never sounded uneducated to me-actually it sounded like a smart word. I hope that doesn't mean that I sound uneducated, too. (sort of like people who use the word 'aint' without realizing its not a real world).

 

[Zargos]

Me fail engish? Thats unpossible!

 

[45408]

Anyway, back on topic: I think the point stands about who gets into medicine for the right reasons and who doesn't and the detrimental effect it has, to a degree, on American healthcare. I have a friend who's Hispanic with a 3.8 GPA, 31 MCAT and she didn't get into the 7 TMDSAS schools she applied to. She works harder than anyone I know and she's as sweet and personable as pie (even though a pie isn't a person...unless it's someone in a pie costume 😛). But she did not get accepted anywhere!! This girl was planning to go home back to south Texas and serve in those horribly underserved counties.

Your earlier post was based on the horribly flawed premise that people with high stats are less altruistic than those with lower stats. I think that someone with a 3.8/31 is great med school material, and the fact that a URM with those stats didn't get into a school seems to indicate that her application was lacking elsewhere. But how would an adcom know that she was any more likely to work in an underserved area? Lots of people can say that they will, but until they actually do it, there's no proof.

 

[Ypo.]

Me fail engish? Thats unpossible!

Not unpossible, just nonprobable.

 

[jbar]

irrespective + regardless = irregardless.
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According the William Safire (who writes about language for New York Times Magazine) irregardless isn't proper English because it violates the rules for using double negatives with prefixes and suffixes. That being said, it is technically a word in the sense that people use it and other people know what they mean according to him, though it does make him as a lexographer cringe. In the same sense you could use ironical or misunderestimate, (courtesy of our CIC), because people know what you are saying even though it is awful English and makes you sound like a *****. Furthermore, irregardless is from the negative form of regardless, not from irrespective. regardless and irrespective are basically synonyms, but that doesn't make them additive.

All that being said, I still use irregardless because I like it.

jbar

 

[tigress]

Oh, I love to say misunderestimate 😍

But usually I'm joking when I say it 😛

 

[Rafa]

"Is all our children learning?"

 

[63768]

if irregardless is a word, supposably is also one.

 

[gary5]

Irregardless is poor english. It is a double negative used incorrectly as a single negative. It's like using nonnoncompliant to mean noncompliant.

Regarding your friend, her stats are good, but she made a mistake if she only applied to 7 schools. 15 is better. Plus, she could be weak elsewhere. If her secondaries were weak or she interviews poorly, then they'll pick someone else. Her life isn't over. She can get good experience this year and reapply.

 

[LO281OK]

The OP has left out important parts of the information regarding "irregardless."

ir·re·gard·less ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-gärdls)
adv. Nonstandard
Regardless.


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[Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]
Usage Note: 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.

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irregardless

adv : regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes used humorously


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With the Superbowl tonight... My dad and I used to have fun by having a dictionary handy to look up some of the zany words commentators come up with in the course of a game.

 

[TexasFool]

Irregardless is poor english. It is a double negative used incorrectly as a single negative. It's like using nonnoncompliant to mean noncompliant.

Regarding your friend, her stats are good, but she made a mistake if she only applied to 7 schools. 15 is better. Plus, she could be weak elsewhere. If her secondaries were weak or she interviews poorly, then they'll pick someone else. Her life isn't over. She can get good experience this year and reapply.

Yeah, apply to 15+ or 30+ like me next year. Lots of good applicants get the shaft because texas has this new thing where they like to admit college drunks with 24 mcats and 3.2 GPAs over better applicants that are sober.

I think in texas it's about who you know also.

This state is getting more corrupt every day.

irregardless I will still reapply in texas.

 

[kirexhana]

have you guys ever thought of flammable and inflammable?

 

[Ypo.]

have you guys ever thought of flammable and inflammable?

unflammable and nonflammable.

Now I'm really confused.

 

[Whootman]

Why do they call it a "near miss?"

 

[it.]

"may or may not..."

i'm not confused. it's just stupid. if you're out there saying it, you need to be shot.

 

[UserNameNeeded]

it's just stupid. if you're out there saying it, you need to be shot.

Whoa. Harshness. Would you like to be shot next time you debone a chicken wing, heifer? 😛 It's just a word, don't unravel!