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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have heard rich, white folks use conversate, orientate, irregardless, could care less, etc etc.

AX is just a dialect. May not be awesome, but no worse than "warsh" (Baltimore), Birfday" (my upper PA in laws say this), or whatever. Really. You KNOW your kid is not going to come home saying "ax," so the only reason it bothers you is because...actually, I don't know why.[/quote]

You idiot. "orientate" "irregardless" and "could care less" are all 100% grammatically correct.[/quote]

Oriented. Regardless (the other only RECENTLY accepted due to rampant use). Could care less isn't what you use when you are saying that you CouldN'T care less. [/quote]

Do you want to try writing that out again, in English this time?[/quote]

Different poster. She/he is speaking English.  I think you just find it sucks to be wrong.

And ANYBODY who has bothered to study linguistics, and not their own biases, knows that ax/ask is a dialect. And I posted this in the last thread--unless you say Feb-roo-ary, you are saying it wrong. And words like often can be pronounced multiple ways. It is language, not a learning disability as another ignorant poster said.[/quote]

Check again - I said that all those examples are "grammatically correct". Whether the common usage is "could" or "couldn't" is not relevant to BOTH being GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT. So where am I wrong again? Oh yes, that would be no where.[/quote]

They are NOT "grammatically correct." You are wrong about that.[/quote]

Actually they are all "grammatically correct". Do you know what grammar means? I genuinely think you are confusing the rules of grammar with definitions and rules of "usage". It doesn't matter if the saying is wrong, or worded incorrectly, if it remains [b]grammatically[/b] correct. [/quote]

Digging in deeper, aren't you? The first post about "orientate, could care less," etc were about usage. You decided to call someone an idiot because even though two of those aren't really words and one is bad usage, you inexplicably decided to chime in by calling them "grammatically correct."

HOW that relates to ax, pronunciation, and usage is still unclear, but sure, yeah, [b]made up words [/b]and bad phrasing are grammatically correct. Doesn't mean you should use them.

Do you even have a point with all this nonsense, or did you find yourself saying yesterday, "Irregardless of how people choose to orientate themselves, I could care less" and now feel like you need to defend it?

WTH.[/quote]

No, "made up words" are not grammatically correct. You're wrong there. There were not any actual "made up words" in the words I read or highlighted in my responses. Perhaps you need to consult a dictionary.[/quote]

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