I feel odd reading "all right" in a sentence as my brain interprets them differently I realize there would be a comma somewhere if this were the case but I feel like a sentence such as "They were all right" could mean that all of them were correct versus "They were alright" which meant they were okay.
Yes, exactly!! Oh man...see, we just need dictionaries to catch up with the way we're using the language. If a dictionary would just put this in their frickin' book like they do with some of the other stupid stuff we come up with...for chrissakes "tweeps" was added to Oxford in 2012.
like YOLO or LOL I felt disgusting just typing that
Haha, I like you.
Also Microsoft Word never corrects me so I feel no guilt over this. (I do feel irritated when it corrects me on the spelling of colour).
True, maybe I should just declare MS word as the authority and just use "alright" and not obsess over it anymore...
I set my spell-checker to "Canadian English" which means that it doesn't get offended at my use of "colour" or "favour" or "neighbour"...though, I'm ashamed to admit that it DID force me to use Zs instead of Ss in words like "realize" and "civilize", because apparently Ss used that way are British English, not Canadian.
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Date: 2012-09-08 05:04 am (UTC)Yes, exactly!! Oh man...see, we just need dictionaries to catch up with the way we're using the language. If a dictionary would just put this in their frickin' book like they do with some of the other stupid stuff we come up with...for chrissakes "tweeps" was added to Oxford in 2012.
like YOLO or LOL I felt disgusting just typing that
Haha, I like you.
Also Microsoft Word never corrects me so I feel no guilt over this. (I do feel irritated when it corrects me on the spelling of colour).
True, maybe I should just declare MS word as the authority and just use "alright" and not obsess over it anymore...
I set my spell-checker to "Canadian English" which means that it doesn't get offended at my use of "colour" or "favour" or "neighbour"...though, I'm ashamed to admit that it DID force me to use Zs instead of Ss in words like "realize" and "civilize", because apparently Ss used that way are British English, not Canadian.