A Slice Of Life

[theweaselking]

torrain: I gave up on the purity of language with "irregardless".

Me: Look, that doesn't bother me, but dammit, "chiropractic" is an ADJECTIVE, not a fucking NOUN.

torrain: "Irregardless, that's not how it's used."

Me: [twitch].... [twitch]... "... you win."

Comments

[moiread]

NO. JUST NO.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

He had to understand the problem with "irregardless"!

[secretagentmoof]

What _is_ the noun form? Chiropraxy? Chiropraxis?

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Chiropractor? Someone who does chiropractic stuff? How does someone use chiropractic as a noun anyway? I can't think of a context.

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

Its chiropractor here. If you said "I'm going to the chiropractic" people would look at you funny. (tho it might be a valid contraction of "chiropractic clinic").

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You were totally asking for that.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

A person is a chiropractor, but a disturbing number of them refer to what they do as "chiropractic".

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

They would be the woo merchants that go on about sublaxations or something like that and claim that it can cure anything! Anything!!?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Some of them, yes. Others are massage and posture therapists. The problem is that they use the same word. It's like if there was no way to tell at a glance the difference between an MD and a PhD, and both were claiming to be able to get you healthy, and oh by the way the PhD doesn't actually have a PhD at all.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Fake answer that's better than the real answer: Chiropractice.

Real answer: Chiropracty

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

"Chiropractic" is a noun; it's both an adjective and a noun.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

This.

:V

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

short for chiropractic therapy? Like saying 'chemo' ?

(in thinking about it, people tend to say just 'chiro' here, because chiropractor is a bit tricky)

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

It burns us, Precious!

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

Also, sometimes, "baby murder". (http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/9223578/Chiropractor-breaks-babys-neck)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

" It's like if there was no way to tell at a glance the difference between an MD and a PhD, and both were claiming to be able to get you healthy, and oh by the way the PhD doesn't actually have a PhD at all. "