The purpose of language is to communicate. Adding words which mean exactly the same thing as existing (shorter) words consumes cognitive resources without enhancing the language's ability to communicate. Therefore, objectively, people shouldn't use them.

One might say such word choices are ungood.

So you’re categorically against the existence of synonyms?

There are very few true synonyms. Most have some cases where you'd want to use one or the other.

"Sometimes words, you no need use but need need for talk talk."

There are prescriptive and descriptive schools of linguistics, with one trying to gently nudge/direct/drive/correct the use of a language, while the other concentrates on documenting it as it happens in the wild.

> There are prescriptive and descriptive schools of linguistics

That’s not true. There are no “prescriptivists” whatsoever in the modern science of linguistics.

Interesting to hear! What happened to those guys?

What guys? Did they ever exist? Can you name a prominent “prescriptivist linguist”?

I’m pretty sure there was never a “prescriptivist school” of linguistics, or if there was it was never mainstream. There have been prescriptive grammarians of course but AFAIK they never called themselves “linguists”.

This is definitely my ignorance showing, so you'll have to bear with me, but what is the difference between grammarian and linguist?

I did find a linguistics course note which does seem to indicate that such a debate existed, even if in the past: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling001/prescription.html

I have no idea what your point is here. Which, I guess, proves mine.

Is it subjective in this case? There is a logic to how this word is constructed: regard-less means without regard. Irregardless violates that logic: ir-regard-less, not without regard?

It’s true that you can’t logically predict the meaning of “irregardless” from its smaller components.

However, that’s true of virtually all words. Ones where the etymology makes the meaning obvious are the exception.

Human languages aren’t math or programming languages; you can’t apply the same kind of logic to them.