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Jack Thompson's Game Bill Moves Forward
Gamespot reports that the Jack Thompson-penned anti-games bill currently being considered by the Louisiana Senate Judiciary Committee has been approved, and will now go to the full Senate for debate. From the article: "According to the text of the bill, it would be illegal to sell, rent, or lease a game to a minor if it met the following three conditions: (1) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the video or computer game, taken as a whole, appeals to the minor's morbid interest in violence. (2) The game depicts violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable for minors. (3) The game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors."
In that case, "inflammable" is a direct derivative of the word "inflame", not of the word "flame". "Inflammable" and "flammable" just happent o be two words that mean the same thing but came from slightly different roots.
There is no such word as "irregard", so there is no linguistic basis for the word "irregardless" outside of morons who mix the words "irrespective" and "regardless" into some weird concoction that they think sounds correct. Your argument that there is such a word because some people of low intelligence have mistakenly created it is the same bullshit people use to justify the use of the word "nukular". Specifically, pronouncing the "clear" part of "nuclear" as "clee-ar" seems unnatural to some people when preceded by a "yoo" sound. So they take cues from words like "spectacular" instead of pronouncing the word correctly.
That's the explanation behind the idiocy. But it doesn't change the fundamental issue that people who consistently use such pronunciations are incorrect and sound like blithering idiots.