Interesting choice given the way that's been shifting slowly back to the more accurate form in the past however many years.
If colloquial usage did trump all, irregardless would've been acknowledged as a correct word well before I was born. It may be the driving force but it's hardly the only, or even constantly deciding, factor
If you understand someone well enough to correct them, you didn't have to.
Just because you understand someone well enough to correct them doesn't mean everyone else will
Just because you understand them well enough today doesn't mean you will tomorrow
We should all be striving to be better than we are, not breeding resentment from contentment
I hate this extragrammatical idiom so much.
But given that colloquial usage trumps all else when it comes to driving the evolution of language, most people could care less.
Interesting choice given the way that's been shifting slowly back to the more accurate form in the past however many years.
If colloquial usage did trump all, irregardless would've been acknowledged as a correct word well before I was born. It may be the driving force but it's hardly the only, or even constantly deciding, factor