All right vs. alright?

[sageridder]

Originally posted by Larry_OHF: My neighbor Anthony is black and comes over alot to use my telephone. When he gets on that phone and starts talking to whoever he is talking to, asking them who knows what...you'd think he was talking a totally different language. As many times as I have heard him speak to another black person, I have never understood one word...no not one. Once, I was sitting out by my front door when he asked me, "yawnchiyaa' did"? I asked him twice to repeat what he had just "akst" me and I finally understood that he was saying "You want your yard did?", meaning did I want it mowed...meaning could he mow it for me for money. [img]smile.gif[/img] Living in this area, one does not correct another's grammar...one just has to accept what the world has become around us all. I'll never be able to change them for the better, nor could the school that Anthony dropped out of, by the way.

Wow larry, you just brought back some memories for me.When I was stationed in fort knox on my first day I had a drill sargent yelling at me to stand rye chair(right there), I just stood there without a clue of what to do until I was made to do squat thrusts untill I puked.I later had a cajun drill sargent with an accent so thick that that whenever I saw him I didn't even try I would just drop and start doing pushups.

[Brayf]

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.

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.