Date: May. 26th, 2005 09:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com
I like to use "irregardless" intentionally, just to be funny (in some bizarro-world way it strikes me that way) (overkill, I think, plus the sounds themselves). The flammable/inflammable one has been a curiosity to me for some time, but I never thought about "just in case."

Boy, Math Reviews'd drive you crazy with the mathematicians' use of "in case." "In case x = 2, y = 47," say, only with mathier number stuff. They mean "in THE case IN WHICH," which seems to these ears especially bad to truncate. I keep expecting to read on to something like "In case x = 2, pull alarm and proceed single-file to the nearest exit. Walk; don't run."

Date: May. 27th, 2005 01:31 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] paperkingdoms
Yay! A mathism I haven't picked up. :^) That's just lazy.
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