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apcalc
(4,463 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)... but alright/all right has always been a pet peeve of mine.
Hugin
(33,135 posts)There is no context!
Gah!
Karadeniz
(22,511 posts)Different spellings.
All right/alright has one meaning, so only one spelling needed... and it's all right, two words, puristically speaking. If a spellchecker is using both (mine just showed alright), the programmer either doesn't know the difference or has accepted the change in language.
We need to teach kids a model. I already asked if we were all ready. Maybe someone here knows a teaching trick!!!!
Hugin
(33,135 posts)They tend to be consistent in their structure/meaning and eventually lead to new languages.
However, it seems to me 'alright vs all right' is laziness leading to nothing except confusion.
MiHale
(9,721 posts)Karadeniz
(22,511 posts)Of my post below.
MiHale
(9,721 posts)tblue37
(65,336 posts)niyad
(113,278 posts)2naSalit
(86,572 posts)That if he were here, John Lennon might approve of the revised lyrics.
Thanks!
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)Karadeniz
(22,511 posts)Best, but I can't fight that battle by myself!!!
I have noticed that even in the media, one can still from time to time detect a gerund being preceded by a possessive... or should that be "a gerund's being preceded"?
The most important aspect to spelling and grammar: Don't let such technicalities become a tool for judging others as in some way inferior.
MiHale
(9,721 posts)steventh
(2,143 posts)Thanks too for the link to Brooklynite's Doonsbury post.
k&r
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,152 posts)planetc
(7,808 posts)planetc
(7,808 posts)First, you have to have one word to attach a -y to. And next, it's one of my favorite words, because when I use it, I always hear the tone of voice used by Strother Martin in "Cool Hand Luke" as he says: "What we have here is failure to communicate." I intend to go right on using alrighty whenever I feel like it after I make sure Greg the Grammarian can't hear me.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Social media can be a scourge and a drain on your life. But the cat pictures!!!
Hekate
(90,660 posts)I read it over my morning coffee and now cant get the tune out of my head, though