You got it, all right! | WordReference Forums

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There's a difference between saying "You got it alright!" and "You got it, alright!" (the "all right" is probably just some old/literary variant). The first phrase, without a comma, denotes the confirmation of the action having been indeed achieved. The second phrase is just emphasized by adding "alright" at the end. Basically both mean the same, implying that a certain action has been successfully achieved. But the emphasis is on different parts of each phrase, depending on whether the comma is present.
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"Some old/literary variant"??? Until very recently, and I'm talking 2005, alright was basically considered to be just wrong. Or at least slangy/informal. It has bruted its way into acceptability. Check out the google books ngram viewer for all right and alright.
"You got it, all right!" here is just a (very enthusiastic) way of saying "Yes, you did."
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That's what I meant too, but as for the "all right" spelling, I've always thought that it was British or something. Like, they were saying it "awe-roit", while in North America you would usually spell "alright" and some even shorten in up to "aight". Am I in the wrong?
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"Aight" is vernacular, and you would never see it in formal writing. All right -> Aight is a phonetic corruption similar to going to -> gonna.
When I was young, "alright" was not a legitimate word. That meant there might be some confusion if someone said, for example, "Those answers are all right. "All of the answers are correct"? or "The answers as a whole are acceptable"?
These days people might use "alright" for the second meaning. But this is a recent thing.
I'm in North America, and I would never use the word alright. Probably a generational thing, but still a thing.
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My boss in Montreal is a native English speaker born in 1977, he keeps writing "Alright, folks" in his emails (not "e-mails" ). I seldom read author literature, usually sticking to news articles and such, but rarely do I find "all right" in the same implication.
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1958. So that's a generation
Emails are not formal writing (unless you're writing to your boss or his superiors).
If you ask me how I'm doing (in writing), I'm going to write back that I'm all right.
If I want to rally the troops by email, I'm going to write, "All right, people!"
The other spelling is accepted by many (most?) these days, but... [See previous post.]
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"Some old/literary variant"??? Until very recently, and I'm talking 2005, alright was basically considered to be just wrong. Or at least slangy/informal. It has bruted its way into acceptability. Check out the google books ngram viewer for all right and alright.
"You got it, all right!" here is just a (very enthusiastic) way of saying "Yes, you did."
Usage note The form alright as a one-word spelling of the phrase all right in all of its senses probably arose by analogy with such words as already and altogether. Although alright is a common spelling in written dialogue and in other types of informal writing, all right is used in more formal, edited writing.
alright/ɔːlˈraɪt/adv , sentence substitute , adj a variant spelling of all right USAGE The form alright, though very common, is still considered by many people to be wrong or less acceptable than all right