Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for April 08, 2024

A hen wetter? IMAGE, GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!

When anybody uses “irregardless”, I cringe.

Irregardless leaves some people feeling irregular. Turns them into hen wetters.

Irregardless is in fact an accepted word, having been around for a couple hundred years at least, and having been used by respected writers for nearly as long as it’s been around. Merriam-Webster has a pretty good article on its history. It takes a pedant to object to it at at this point, and an ill-educated pedant, at that.

Amazingly, this ’toon predates and predicts what passes for normal dialogue in social media today.

There are many words that are not formal or used in polite company. Remember that the goal of words is to communicate ideas and or feelings, first and following the strict rules of grammar is a very distant second. Saying %&#@@ communicates that I am very unhappy with little room for misunderstanding.

Well said Opus, well said… Okay, maybe not.

Opus Malaprop.

Well, I’ve wet some hens in my day . . .

I have to squirt some of our hens when they decide to forage in the garden, I can attest that they do, indeed get mad, very mad.

Merge of “er, regardless”

All that and Gorbachev was fairly true to his word, or at least got out before breaking it.

Opus is killing English today.

Where are you going to?

Where are you staying at?