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Recently I was editing a manuscript of a dictionary in which the lexicographer labeled irregardless an illiteracy, and I suggested that a less critical, more clinical term might be nonstandard . Readers might disagree, but I felt that regardless is more, so to speak, in the public domain than an expression like tête-à-tête , which one might classify as an “intellectualism” and, certainly, a more pretentious term than get-together or meeting . If one is going to be pretentious, one ought to get his pretences properly in a row.
Unlike corporations, which will occasionally throw money at bizarre nonstandard computing solutions like NeXT, OS/2, or Java, normal people only get one shot at it.
Moreover, the fact that Kinsey had a sexual life, however nonstandard it was, would not render him incapable of objectivity in writing about sex.
Fox, citing various linguists and explaining things quite clearly, said that negative reactions to nonstandard dialects are the result of social factors, not linguistic ones; the dialects--whether "ebonics," Brooklynese, or Peter Jennings'--are just as regular and logical as any other variety of English.
Ted Bernstein, when he was assistant managing editor of The New York Times , published a house organ, “Winners and Sinners,” that offered kudos for the occasional “bright passage” or deft metaphor and cited questionable and nonstandard grammar and usage that appeared in the newspaper.