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Re: Off Topic

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:22 pm
by spiraldoor
dingodile555 wrote:I played a demo once of Good of war
Good of War? :P

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:48 pm
by Mountain Goat
I think he meant "Bad of War" :mrgreen:

By the way, Serza, what's your favourite track in Mario Kart?

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:17 pm
by El Dango
Mine is Rainbow Road. It's so big and shiny! :fou:

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:44 pm
by Serza5
mostwanted82 wrote:I think he meant "Bad of War" :mrgreen:

By the way, Serza, what's your favourite track in Mario Kart?
I have so many :mryellow: I can't decide.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:02 am
by Holy Crap
Rainbow Road wins. :P Especially since I can beat my friend on it, even though I don't have the game and he does.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:09 am
by foultzboyz
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.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:22 am
by Holy Crap
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?

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:04 pm
by Serza5
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)

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:49 am
by Hunchman801
foultzboyz wrote: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 noticed it with the Firefox spell checker. This is, basically, the reason why I use “all right” instead of “alright” now.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:05 pm
by spiraldoor
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Re: Off Topic

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:50 pm
by El Dango
You mean ripping off Hunch? Tried it. :wink:

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:20 pm
by Xenon
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 :)

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:40 pm
by Serza5
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Re: Off Topic

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:01 pm
by foultzboyz
Xenon wrote: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.
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 wrote:
foultzboyz wrote: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 noticed it with the Firefox spell checker. This is, basically, the reason why I use “all right” instead of “alright” now.
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.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:56 am
by Holy Crap
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.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:39 am
by foultzboyz
I'm American and it actually isn't correct American English.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:58 pm
by spiraldoor
Maybe you have the British version of Firefox :boon:

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:32 pm
by Hunchman801
foultzboyz wrote: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.
I use the French version with the British English spell checker. Maybe that's the reason. Anyway, it seems that alright is actually correct.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:01 pm
by foultzboyz
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.
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...

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:00 pm
by El Dango