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Dec. 8th, 2003 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phosfateDear Kate Orman and Kate Orman's Copy Editor:
It's "all right." "ALL RIGHT," all right? Not "alright." For the love of Christ, it's your friggin' language!
Your pal,
Ann
It's "all right." "ALL RIGHT," all right? Not "alright." For the love of Christ, it's your friggin' language!
Your pal,
Ann
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Date: 2003-12-08 09:11 am (UTC)Re: This would --
Re: This would --
Date: 2003-12-08 06:19 pm (UTC)And neither would the man he became.
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*smokes gently*
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Date: 2003-12-08 09:25 am (UTC)*sprays with plant mister*
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Date: 2003-12-08 10:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-08 10:45 am (UTC)*swaps Bactine for more sting-y stuff*
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Date: 2003-12-08 11:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-12-08 04:50 pm (UTC)but yes, i like it too. plus, it's so evocative of that manly chin-jerk.
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Date: 2003-12-09 07:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-09 10:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-12-09 11:34 am (UTC)my name is friday. i'm a cop.
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Date: 2003-12-08 02:50 pm (UTC)I loves you! Loves you so much!
I used to get such angry mail about this when I insisted on it in my old grammar guide.
Loves you some more.
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Date: 2003-12-08 03:00 pm (UTC)Fuck you, you little weasels. If you're writing vernacular dialogue and you want a particular character to look like an idiot, "alright" may be employed in order to do so. If you are writing omniscient or semi-omniscient narrative in standard English, it is TWO GODDAMNED WORDS.
Leave DM alone. If you can take ten minutes to complain, you can take five to learn proper useage for two words. Don't make me kick your little vermin asses.
Eat me,
Ann
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Date: 2003-12-08 04:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
All Right!
Date: 2003-12-08 06:24 pm (UTC)evilmistake should be pointed out and corrected more often!It really is one of my pet peeves.
Re: All Right!
Date: 2003-12-09 06:32 am (UTC)Re: All Right!
Date: 2004-08-09 07:06 am (UTC)Which novel? I use "all right" (even though "alright" is in the Macquarie Dictionary), so I'm a bit surprised to have stumbled across this complaint.
AAAAAAAGH!!! Time rift!
It was especially shocking for being (a) one of yours, and (b) a New Adventure, since youse rite real good an' junk, and the NAs are, as a rule, down with their homies in Grammartown, yo.
Re: AAAAAAAGH!!! Time rift!
Date: 2004-08-10 07:11 pm (UTC)