2015年9月6日 · Alright = more formal. Okay = less formal. I think you are smart to pick up on the subtle difference in the usage of alright vs okay — especially by native speakers. I had a brief discussion with my roommate (both of us are native speakers) about your question and we arrived at the same conclusions. As follows.

Alright has come to mean acceptable, okay, and safe, as in "the kids are alright" - very much a comforting phrase if there has been some kind of accident or the like! "The kids are all right" in that same context would have an extremely confusing connotation: the kids would not all be correct after an accident.

Framed as a question, the single word utterance Okay? could be a shortened version of 2- or 3-word [Are [you]] okay? (Are you alright?), but it could also be used to mean something like Are you okay / satisfied with [whatever was just said/done] / Do you agree? On the other hand, I think a single word utterance such as Satisfied?

2019年6月17日 · "I'm doing alright (or pretty much any sentence with the same meaning). What about you?" However, in practice, I found out that people tend to use phrases like, "Hey, you Okay?" or "Hey, you alright?" and I'm not sure what the proper response would be. I usually find myself saying something like, "I'm alright. Thanks" (I figured, saying "I'm ...

2022年1月20日 · Would it be alright if I were to call you Annie? Either way, they are asking for permission to call her "Annie" from this point (in time) forward. Past Tense. Would it be alright if I took a rain check? Would it be alright if I called you Annie? These sentences could be understood two different ways depending on context:

2021年1月13日 · But my opinion of this context is that Things are okay, but I wouldn't go so far as to say everything is fine could be a perfectly reasonable thing to say (the situation is at least tolerable, but it's far from good). Contrariwise, I don't think I could ever accept Things are fine, but I wouldn't go so far as to say everything is okay.

2015年8月27日 · 1) Is definitely most common in common usage. 'Okay with' most commonly confirms politely that the person is willing to/comfortable with helping. 'Okay to' might imply that there was some reason the other person might not be in a state where they are able to help, e.g. (To a sick person), "I will need your help if you are okay (well enough) to ...

2019年8月23日 · "Doing alright" is an elided sentence, a shortened form of: I am doing alright. When someone asks, "How are you doing?" it may seem natural to repeat the doing: Doing alright. However, when someone asks, "How are you?" it …

2017年3月8日 · "That's alright" is a perfectly fine and polite response. If you wanted a better one, then from a British English perspective when people accidentally contact each other in public, they both say "Sorry". A typical exchange would be: Person A: "Sorry" Person B: "Sorry" and that's it. The sorrys aren't really apologies, they're just a reflex ...

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