On Grammar and Spacing

[monsterchic]

My English teacher sent me this on Facebook tonight. It's absolutely fantastic!

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I love it! Alot!

 

[Chel]

Thanks for sharing! I want to show EVERYONE that!

 

[Ursa major]

Very amusing and well worth sharing; alot.


(IE11 automatically changes alot to a lot, so perhaps the alot's days are numbered**.)






** - "A lot" is a kind of number, isn't it...?

 

[chrispenycate]

Very amusing and well worth sharing; alot.


(IE11 automatically changes alot to a lot, so perhaps the alot's days are numbered**.)






** - "A lot" is a kind of number, isn't it...?

Only if you're a troll (whose counting system goes manymanymany - Lots!). Or if you speak troll, I suspect, which is not a bad talent for a mod.

But I agree with the commenteer who pointed out the 'alright' as an even more perfidious pest, breeding and invading like Australian bunnies.

 

[Juliana]

Allie Brosh is hilarious; I love her blog and the Alot entry is one of her best. She has a book out, too.

 

[The Storyteller]

This was great! Thanks for sharing, I got a good laugh out of this.

 

[Mouse]

I really don't understand why some people even think it is 'alot.' You don't say it as one word. Same with 'nevermind.'

 

[HareBrain]

You don't say it as one word. Same with 'nevermind.'

I do. I can't detect any difference in spacing between "thanks a lot" and "lancelot". Actually, except where there's an obvious pause that in writing would be represented by some kind of punctuation mark, I think most speech runs all the words together. Thegermanswereontosomething.

 

[Mouse]

I can detect a difference. I'd say it differently as one word. It's like the clothes shop New Look. I call it NewLook, but I've actually heard people call it New... Look, and I'm like, where you talking about, dude?

 

[Ursa major]

For one thing, HB, Lancelot is a (French) name**, not the result of the unfortunate combining of two English words.








** - According to my book of names, it means spear attendant.

 

[tinkerdan]

The grammar police allot a lot of tickets and fines to those who say alot.

 

[Brev]

Thanks for sharing. 'Alot' is one of my pet hates. Maybe now I'll smile next time I see it. Maybe.

I agree with the commenteer who pointed out the 'alright' as an even more perfidious pest.

I'm with you on that.