begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 01:26:57PM -0700: > On Sun, September 9, 2007 1:14 pm, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > > > > Looks allright for appropriate definitions of "allright", I suppose, but > > I'm used to people mispelling "all right" as "alright" (confusing it with > already), but spelling it as one word is refreshingly original.
Doesn't "all right" -> "alright" count as coining a synonym? There's no conflict with an existing word (such as you get with "can't" -> "cant"), nor does it introduce any sort of ambiguity. > Please don't take this as criticism. Jaques Barzun said "correct English > is nobody's native language" and he was right. But this had to be said > before Carl jumped on it ;-) > > I will now retire to the pedant's corner, ever vigilant for someone's > spelling "cannot" as "can not". I can not see why you would object. You ca'n't be seriously considering invoking the LART of Grammar Pedantry over such spelling, and if you are, we cannot stand by and let you get away with it. -- I wo'n't give up my wont. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
