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Re: vidyā dadāti vinayam zmjezhd #173081 02/02/2008 4:45 AM
Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass	Originally Posted By: zmjezhd irregardless My superior intuition about the prefix in irregardless is that it is the same intensifier as the in- in inflammable. and my innate cynicism informs me that irregardless really was (originally) just a fortuitous* blend of regardless and irrespective -- in the latter of which the prefix -ir is not an intensifier, but a negation. and I don't mean lucky!! -joe (each of us succumbs to peevology on occasion) friday*

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Suppurate - 02/01/08	Porcupine	02/01/2008 2:17 PM
Re: Suppurate - 02/01/08	Alex Williams	02/01/2008 2:40 PM
Re: Suppurate - 02/01/08	Faldage	02/01/2008 3:41 PM
Re: Suppurate - 02/01/08	tsuwm	02/01/2008 4:02 PM
Re: at last, all too well, I can see	zmjezhd	02/01/2008 4:21 PM
Re: Suppurate - 02/01/08	Myridon	02/01/2008 4:29 PM
Re: Suppurate - 02/01/08	tsuwm	02/01/2008 4:31 PM
Re: Suppurate - 02/01/08	2fs	02/01/2008 5:20 PM
Re: Suppurate - 02/01/08	zmjezhd	02/01/2008 5:41 PM
Re: Suppurate - 02/01/08	dalehileman	02/01/2008 5:44 PM
Re: Suppurate - 02/01/08	Porcupine	02/02/2008 3:00 AM
Re: vidyā dadāti vinayam	zmjezhd	02/02/2008 3:49 AM
Re: vidyā dadāti vinayam	tsuwm	02/02/2008 4:45 AM
Re: vidyā dadāti vinayam	Zed	02/02/2008 7:22 AM
Re: in-	morphememedley	02/02/2008 11:41 PM
Re: Irregardless	Porcupine	02/02/2008 2:50 PM
Re: Irregardless	dalehileman	02/02/2008 4:08 PM
Re: Irregardless	Zed	02/02/2008 9:03 PM
Re: Irregardless	themilum	02/02/2008 4:37 PM
Re: Irregardless	Faldage	02/02/2008 8:42 PM
Re: in-	Buffalo Shrdlu	02/02/2008 11:58 PM
Re: Irregardless	zmjezhd	02/02/2008 4:43 PM

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