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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Sometimes it's efficincy, not laziness. There's a backlash against the word "alright" which has only been around for a century or so, but the contractions "already" and "although" are accepted more because they've been around since the middle ages -- not because there is any qualitative difference.
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Hey, that's changed my mind a bit. I never noticed that, but you're right, it's exactly the same principle. Alright, I'm cool with that.