My phone’s just bitten the dust and now I need to look for a new one again.
Thought I’d test the waters and see what kinds of phones people on here are using nowadays and what for, what features set them apart if any etc
Bonus points if anyone’s managed to get mainline linux running on them either via KVM or bare metal
“Alot” doesn’t exist, it’s always “a lot”. Above meme depicts an imaginary animal, the alot, in order to make the difference clearer.
I get that, but I didn’t use a lot or alot in my comment. Did you reply to the wrong person?
I did! Sorry!
To the people who treat that as a hard and fast rule, I wonder what opinion they hold of the word “another.”
What wrong with another
Nothing, that’s my point. It’s a fusion of the words “an other” which is a phrase used in English so frequently that it became its own word, “another.”
People are fine with that but they treat “alot” like it’s a problem.
I guess they would think that an other and another have different meanings, like car pet and carpet
What does “an other” mean that “another” doesn’t?
Give me another apple. (Another: one more of the same)
We regret to inform you that we chose an other candidate. (An other: a different one)
But the form “an other” is extremely rare, most likely because it is confusing in spoken language.
I don’t think I’ve seen that usage, “…an other candidate.” They’d either just use “another” or there would be a verbal ellipsis, like “We chose an…other candidate.” Or they’d just say “a different candidate.”
Car pet… is this petting a car or having a car as a pet. :)
Edit: or petting someone with a car
Or a pet for the car. The precision of the English language, ladies and gentlemen.