Comment on Linguistics

• GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At least with orientated it kind makes sense because orientation is the process of orienting, so to have done the process would be to be orientated in a weird way but irregardless will always irk me because the ir and the less make a double negative, making the meaning as written ‘with regard’ which just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Like if somebody misunderstood a sentence with a double negative we would call them wrong but because it’s a single word they get to change the entire language, regardless of its structure and rules? Seems kinda bogus to me.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can double for intensification. Language isn’t maths, you cannot count negations to reach meaning.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Never seen it here.

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• davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Orientated” is reasonably common in British English, I think. I remember thinking someone had misspelt it the first time I saw “oriented” written down.

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