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Rainbow Road wins. :P Especially since I can beat my friend on it, even though I don't have the game and he does.
 
I can't remember when it last was that I played Mario Kart 64. It was pretty fun though...

And did anyone know that "alright" isn't a true (or proper, to put it like that) English word? It's a form of "all right", though it actually isn't correct English and I never knew that before...Of course, I'll still use it, because I like "alright" better than "all right", hehe. Just thought that was interesting because I heard that earlier today.
 
I knew that, but I just say alright. It's much easier. And that's how it's said anyway, or at least most of the time, so why not write it that way?
 
Rainbow road is awesome but it ain't my favourite. I know my least favourite is SNES Mario circuit 3 (I think that's the right one)
 
foultzboyz said:
And did anyone know that "alright" isn't a true (or proper, to put it like that) English word? It's a form of "all right", though it actually isn't correct English and I never knew that before...Of course, I'll still use it, because I like "alright" better than "all right", hehe. Just thought that was interesting because I heard that earlier today.
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I noticed it with the Firefox spell checker. This is, basically, the reason why I use “all right” instead of “alright” now.
 
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To me, "all right" can give off a totally different perception of what's being said, so I prefer to use "alright". Not that it matters too much of course :)
 
Xenon said:
To me, "all right" can give off a totally different perception of what's being said, so I prefer to use "alright". Not that it matters too much of course.
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That's the way I look at it--using one in one type of situation and the other in a different type of situation.

Hunchman801 said:
foultzboyz said:
And did anyone know that "alright" isn't a true (or proper, to put it like that) English word? It's a form of "all right", though it actually isn't correct English and I never knew that before...Of course, I'll still use it, because I like "alright" better than "all right", hehe. Just thought that was interesting because I heard that earlier today.
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I noticed it with the Firefox spell checker. This is, basically, the reason why I use “all right” instead of “alright” now.
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Really? Do you use the French version (I guessing so) because it shows it as correct in the English version of Firefox. It's a pretty rough spell checker though--I've seen some common nouns that it recognized as incorrect, and I found it annoying so I just turn it off now.
 
Are you American Foultz? It might be considered correct in US English but not in British English, so it might have something to do with that.
 
foultzboyz said:
Really? Do you use the French version (I guessing so) because it shows it as correct in the English version of Firefox. It's a pretty rough spell checker though--I've seen some common nouns that it recognized as incorrect, and I found it annoying so I just turn it off now.
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I use the French version with the British English spell checker. Maybe that's the reason. Anyway, it seems that alright is actually correct.
 
Usage Note: Despite the appearance of the form alright in works of such well-known writers as Langston Hughes and James Joyce, the single word spelling has never been accepted as standard. This is peculiar, since similar fusions such as already and altogether have never raised any objections. The difference may lie in the fact that already and altogether became single words back in the Middle Ages, whereas alright has only been around for a little more than a century and was called out by language critics as a misspelling. Consequently, one who uses alright, especially in formal writing, runs the risk that readers may view it as an error or as the willful breaking of convention.
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With that, I think they mean that it's a nonstandard, informal form of "all right", and that used as an adverb may still have the same meaning as "all right". I'm really not sure though--they don't mark the adverb form as nonstandard, though they mark the adjective form as nonstandard, then they say there that the single word spelling has never been accepted as standard...
 
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