Really doesn't need the explanatory last line.
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Related to Alot, I believe.

A lert is similar to an alot
*oatmeal reference
Edit: whoops 😅
Pretty sure the alot was Hyperbole and a Half wasn't it? The Oatmeal is pretty good too.
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html?m=1
I spent all of high school arguing with my English teachers about whether or not it is spelled 'a lot' or 'alot'. I spelled out 'alot' so often in my assignments and argued about it that at one point, even the teachers began to question whether or not it was spelled that way. It was easier to confuse these things pre-internet and pre-google .... plus I had a lot of gullible (but nice) teachers.
Captain: Red Alert!
Riker: Oh was it a good book, Captain?
Red Dwarf had a good take on this:
"Blue alert!" Light starts flashing.
Followed by
- "Advance to red alert!"
- "Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
OW ALERT!
So, a lert is readable, and yell'able. &, I don't think lerts get blown in Star Trek. At least I don't recall a "blew a lert". We'll figure out wtf is a lert yet.
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