Re: This day
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 23, 2007, 5:33 |
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On Mar 22, 2007, at 8:00 PM, MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 3/22/2007 7:21:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
> dedalvs@GMAIL.COM writes:
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>
>> The answers are all right.
>> I got the answers alright.
>>
>> So I would say that there should be a way to distinguish them,
>>
>
> They aren't spoken the same. The intonation in the second goes
> down on
> "alright", whereas in the first it goes down on "right", just as it
> does in "The
> answers are all wrong."
I believe the intonation is a little different, for me, but the vowel
length and stress seem more prominent. I.e., if I were saying I had
gotten all the answers correct, I would stress both "all" and
"right"; if I was saying I got them satisfactorily, I would not
stress the "all" and I think the vowel would be shorter.
(There is a third meaning of "all right" - where it means "indeed".
In that case, there seems to be a pause before it, and the pitch goes
up on the second syllable.)
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