My vote? That is not a word. No one should use it. People who say it should go the special hell with child molesters and people who talk at the theater. (RIP Shepherd Book)
My vote? That is not a word. No one should use it. People who say it should go the special hell with child molesters and people who talk at the theater. (RIP Shepherd Book)
http://english.oxforddictionaries.co..._gb0232390.002
Any other words you'd like to check? =D
Disrespected doesnt sound right to the ear at all.
I guess it is a word "technically", but people that say "You disrespected me.", should say "you have shown me disrespect." I think it is one of those words that over time has been changed, so people can be lazier with the English Language.
Though each unto their own.
lols, I'm English and hear this used all the time,... whats the big deal? o.O Yes it's a word, yes its commonly used here.
Personally "quitted" seems more retarded,.. yes its a word, but i have NEVER heard an English person use it,... and have only read it in really old novels.
As i said, it is the "correct" way to use it, though through laziness "disrespected" has become much more widely used, and now features in Oxford Dictionary.
The latter is just the original and correct way to put across that someone had shown you disrespect.
Go back a few centuries or go into a really high caliber English Literature forum, and saying "disrepected" would probably have the leaders of such times/places raise an eyebrow at the un-educated English.
Hell, even I have said disrespected at times, but it just doesn't sound right coming out of my mouth, so I generally re-structure what i have just said the other way around.
Neither is "better" these days, but if you are going for completely correct English, it would be the latter.
If it's not a proper word, what word would you suggest to replace it?
At least it's not as bad as irregardless...
I love your quote <3 Firefly all the day!
On topic : If its in the dictionary it is a word, the problem is that people use it wrong.
According to the OED, it goes back to the 1600s. Those lazy jerks.
But even so, the idea that there was some point of time when Correct English was definitively established and nobody was allowed to append prefixes or suffixes to words from that point on, no matter how logical they may be*, is weird, to say the least. It's not like there's l'académie d'anglais to rule on these matters.
* -- This is why "irregardless" bothers me, and why you wouldn't see me defending it--there's no reason for that prefix to be there.
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