I know you’re not THE gay - I was just referring to one of Margaret Cho’s endlessly repeated jokes about her mother asking her, in reference to one of her friends:
“Margalet, is he da GAY?”
“No, Mom, he’s not THE gay. There’s not like, just one gay. He doesn’t do the parade all by himself…”
My attempt to slip a joke in there that you’d get but Bill wouldn’t. Turns out neither of you did, so I guess that means I wasn’t funny. Hate it when that happens.
Oh, and about bold and not bold and italics. I was under the impression WB might not know about the codes that you need to stick in there [B] BOLD WORD [_/B] afterwards (no underscores for the real thing) - isn’t that what you’re asking, Bill?
There’s probably a primer of some sort in the “about this message board” board, isn’t there? And I’m on an Imac using Netscape, and bold doesn’t actually show up here. I don’t know if that’s Netscape or what, but that might be contributing to the problem.
Esprix’s tips on quote marks are good ones. Since we’re giving grammar lessons, I’ll add mine - and these are directed sorta at Bill (in a friendly and constructive way, I should add), but anyone else feel free to listen in since we’re in the Pit and people who misuse these bug the hell out of me :
You’re - contraction for “you are”
Ex. - “You’re so silly, Rhino!”
Your - belonging to you
Ex. - “Pick up your clothes.”
It’s - contraction for “it is”
Ex. “It’s raining men!”
Its (no apostrophe) - belonging to “it”
Ex. - “The dog lost its collar.”
They are actually four separate and distinct words with different meanings, not two words that have four meanings.
I understand that can be confusing, as usually one adds an apostrophe to show posession, except you don’t in the case of “its”. That’s why it’s tricky, but with proper practice it becomes second nature.
Next week’s lesson:
Me, Myself, and I - Three more words that are not interchangeable.
