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hells_half_acre) wrote2012-09-07 08:12 pm
hells_half_acre) wrote2012-09-07 08:12 pm
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The Alright All Right Dilemma
I have a problem with the words "all right" or the word "alright" depending on the day.
My problem is that it causes one of those...conflict thingies in my head.
1. I believe in the evolution of language. I believe that "alright" should be a word and that is how it should be spelled. I think it reflects how people SAY "all right" - as one word, not two.
2. I really really hate it when I spell things wrong or have gross grammatical errors.
So, I never know when I'm writing whether I should write "alright" even though I know that it's blatantly wrong, because I want to encourage it to be officially accepted as the standard spelling - or if I should be writing "all right" because that is the proper thing to do, and I have a Masters, damn it!
The only way I have solved this so far is to avoid the words "all right/alright" like the plague and use "okay" instead or some other word. Of course, for those who read my Demented'verse, you'll probably have noticed that I use "alright" all the time in it - a fact that actually makes my fingers itch when I read it. That being said, when I read "all right" in other people's fics, I don't like it, I want them to use "alright."
Anyway, I don't know what to do about this problem....and somehow I doubt this keeps other people up at night.
My problem is that it causes one of those...conflict thingies in my head.
1. I believe in the evolution of language. I believe that "alright" should be a word and that is how it should be spelled. I think it reflects how people SAY "all right" - as one word, not two.
2. I really really hate it when I spell things wrong or have gross grammatical errors.
So, I never know when I'm writing whether I should write "alright" even though I know that it's blatantly wrong, because I want to encourage it to be officially accepted as the standard spelling - or if I should be writing "all right" because that is the proper thing to do, and I have a Masters, damn it!
The only way I have solved this so far is to avoid the words "all right/alright" like the plague and use "okay" instead or some other word. Of course, for those who read my Demented'verse, you'll probably have noticed that I use "alright" all the time in it - a fact that actually makes my fingers itch when I read it. That being said, when I read "all right" in other people's fics, I don't like it, I want them to use "alright."
Anyway, I don't know what to do about this problem....and somehow I doubt this keeps other people up at night.
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"How are you doing?" "Alright."
"How was the movie?" "Alright."
"Are my answers on the homework correct?" "Yes, they were all right."
Except, that's not the case, because technically "alright" isn't a word and ALL those should be spelled "all right" even though it really doesn't make sense instinctively to me.
Ugh...English. I hate it.