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by denni9th 1595 days ago
The downside to doing this is you have to pay the transaction fee twice, once for the $1 and once for the $499,999. The transaction fee is a fixed amount irregardless of how much is being transferred, so it's definitely better to pay the fee twice than risk losing it all if you are even slightly unsure.
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>irregardless

Friendly heads up - this isn't a word, and also happens to be one of those slip-ups that people will judge you extra hard for. Say either "regardless" or "irrespective".

It most definitely is a word irregardless of your feelings about it https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless
Fine. It's not a [standard, generally accepted] word.

Feel free to disregard my advice, though; it's no skin off my nose if you don't want to sound like a "native, educated speaker".

Native, educated speaker here: Nobody cares and everybody understood what they meant.
I always appreciate grammatical corrections, and I know non-native speakers that do too.

A friendly correction of a non-standard word does not deserve derision.

What do you mean generally accepted word? A word is or is not a word . Dont get butthurt because you were pointed wrong after trying to correct someone.
Sheesh. No good deed goes unpunished, eh? From the link:

>We label irregardless as “nonstandard” rather than “slang.” When a word is nonstandard it means it is “not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language.” Irregardless is a long way from winning general acceptance as a standard English word. For that reason, it is best to use regardless instead.

Like I said - I really don't care what you do. I'm just trying to be helpful. Use "irregardless" and people will judge you. If you want to die on that hill, be my guest.

>No good deed goes unpunished, eh?

The problem is that you think trying to sound smart by interrupting a conversation with irrelevant factoids is a "good deed". Maybe some introspection is appropriate here.

You've clearly struck a nerve.
Somebody might say you could care less.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/LOL

A word is a thing people say. If you say irregardless to somebody you're trying to impress, you will fail to.