Music Banter - View Single Post - Things People Say or Write That Annoy You
View Single Post
Old 07-13-2018, 03:41 PM   #262 (permalink)
The Batlord
Zum Henker Defätist!!
 
The Batlord's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beating GNR at DDR and keying Axl's new car
Posts: 48,216
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by MicShazam View Post
A tiny little bit of Google research tells me Trollheart is right.

The form alright is a one-word spelling of the phrase all right. Alright is commonly used in written dialogue and informal writing, but all right is the only acceptable form in edited writing. Basically, it is not all right to use alright in standard English.
Technically "alright" isn't officially a word but it's used differently to "all right" and so Trollheart is functionally wrong.

Quote:
Originally Posted by MicShazam View Post
It's allright. You can always just pay a prostitute to kick you in the balls.
Using "all right" in this circumstance would insinuate that multiple things are correct, whereas "alright" would indicate that something is okay. Clearly you are using the second meaning so "alright" makes sense.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
The Batlord is offline   Reply With Quote