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Offline General Battuta

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
Just keep the turret one?

 

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
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Offline Bob-san

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
What I dislike is how commonly used spellings are being made fun of. I can understand "turrent", but I can't understand "alot" or "alright".
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Offline Rian

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
“A_lot” is definitely incorrect, in that it’s not in any official dictionary I’m aware of. “Al_right” does have a dictionary entry, as a variant (casual, non-standard) spelling. My vote would be to go with the dictionaries on this one, since in my view such humiliation tactics should be reserved for particularly egregious errors and not those that are somewhat debatable.

 

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
What I dislike is how commonly used spellings are being made fun of. I can understand "turrent", but I can't understand "alot" or "alright".

Ugh, agreed.  This whole stupid mix-up thing has made me so mad.
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Offline blackhole

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
Is this HLP Admin Stupidity month or something?

 

Offline Nuke

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
you know there re distinct differneces between american english and brittish english, for example us americans misspel lots of stuff. but making fun of it is racist or something.
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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
I can already see this year's April First's prank...
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Offline Dark RevenantX

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
Only problem was it happened on 2/1/09 instead of 4/1/09

 

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
It's an inquisition!

al­right! a­lot!

I'm special!

I know I yelled al­ot there, al­right?
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Offline redsniper

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
alright alright alright alright
I think it's safe to say that this has been considered a bad move.
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Offline Goober5000

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
Learn to spell.

 

Offline karajorma

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
The single word version is a widely used colloquialism. For instance. While you can argue that it is incorrect in formal writing, it's ridiculous to ban it in an informal one.
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Offline Fury

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Re: What the heck is wrong with 'alright'?
Learn to spell.
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