Alright, this is a twisted rant.

I will admit that now.

BUUUUUUT...

When you are filling out an application and you see race you most of the time see White/Caucasian as one of the choices. I used to grapple with that one because I am Italian and Irish. Neither has anything to do with the Caucuses. If anything I am Mediterranean/Celtic. Yeah you can just say I am white but then again am I purely white? Not with the (Sicilian) Italian heritage. Us Romans were serious outbreeders. I never liked being considered a Caucasian. I am not Slavic or East European.

Heck, you can't say black people are black any more, they are Afro Americans.

By the way, what ever happened to just being an American irregardless of color?




My answer these days is to check 'Other' in the Race part of an application and put American. If I really feel froggy I put down ROMAN! VIVA ROMANO! If I am feeling really funny I write "First Place!" They did say 'race' didn't they? Then again there also is writing down "rat" for the kind of race we live in.


Now I feel a world better. A weight has lifted from my heart. Now life is good.

Irregardless is considered nonstandard because of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy of such words as irrespective, irrelevant, and irreparable. Those who use it, including on occasion educated speakers, may do so from a desire to add emphasis. Irregardless first appeared in the early 20th century and was perhaps popularized by its use in a comic radio program of the 1930s.

So it is a word-- just not a standard word