# Here's my answer to you MeanOldLady. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 26, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-answer-to-you-meanoldlady/144972 "2002-12-26T15:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-answer-to-you-meanoldlady/144972/101 "2002-12-28T14:10:28Z")
Yojimboguy, I love you. Five bonus points for not misspelling “queue” and thereby screwing up your nifty. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-answer-to-you-meanoldlady/144972/102 "2002-12-28T15:35:45Z")
Well, there is the Universal character 016F: ù (provided it shows up in everyone’s screen fonts). ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-answer-to-you-meanoldlady/144972/103 "2002-12-28T16:51:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > \*\*I’m now half-English. Show me an ASCII character for halfway between “o” and “ou”, and I shall use it. 😉 \*\* Um, you gotta buy one of those half-English keyboards. They’re available at Radio Shack … BEHIND the Dvorak keyboards. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-answer-to-you-meanoldlady/144972/104 "2002-12-28T16:58:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by **yojimboguy** \* > It _used_ to be a second language. But we’ve bought the rights and made our version numero uno. That would be _versi **ó** n n **ú** mero uno_ One of these days, one of these days. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-answer-to-you-meanoldlady/144972/105 "2002-12-28T17:13:25Z")
Back on topic, the original thread is still going on, but I’m pretty much done there. Arguing with her is like banging your head against the wall–every point you make is ignored in favor of a smart remark. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-answer-to-you-meanoldlady/144972/106 "2002-12-28T19:00:13Z")
A lot of rap has really good lyrics…but it’s **ABOUT** the **BEATS**. Take away the beats…it’s no longer rap. It’s poetry. How fucking hard is this to understand? Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh. Oh yeah…and without beats, where the fuck do you get rhythm? I don’t understand this whole “talking about beats and rhythm as though they had nothing to do with each other” thing. And I am also colored. I am a light shade of peachish-beige. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-answer-to-you-meanoldlady/144972/107 "2002-12-28T20:48:12Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Mighty\_Girl \* > **That would be \*versi** ó **n n** ú\*\*mero uno_ > > One of these days, one of these days. \*\* It would be, if I were typing in some foreign language. American typing doesn’t need diacritical marks, not even when annexing a previously foreign term like “numero uno”. Which reminds me, I don’t see any reason to keep the word diacritical any more, and putting punctuation inside or outside quotations should be entirely optional. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-my-answer-to-you-meanoldlady/144972.md?page=5)