Let's please keep it simple and stupid.

KISS for short.

When you are typing up a story in your word cruncher of choice, please try and refrain from using monster font size and obscure wild fonts with colors everywhere.

When posting these with the WYSIWYG editor (which is a liar and doesn't work right, by the way) it really plays hell with the story once it gets to me.

Pick a font less than 16 point and stick with it, in black, thank you.

And remember, don't beat the ENTER key to death. No one wants three feet (one meter) of dead space between paragraphs. Once will do it.

Thanks.

I have a 1971 issue, needless to say gullible there with good advise.

Thanks for the suggestion to be safe not sorry.

pueros wrote: Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:03 am Oxford English Dictionary (ref: my earlier post in this thread):-

Gull (from which the word 'gullible' is derived ) = dupe or fool :tongueout

PUEROS

I never made the association between gullible and gull ... good one Pueros. In Canada we have a dilemna regarding dictionaries, neither the American or British ones are exactly right for us because we mix up both. I'm never sure whether to write "grey" or "gray", etc. I once had my English teacher correct a story where I used the word "kerb" instead of "curb", but then got a bonus point when I proved that British dictionaries contain it.

I rarely come to this thread, as I don't read the stories. However I decided to look up the word gulligle in my dictionary. It is not there, Standard German Dictionary.

So if you think I am going out to buy a new Dictionary to know what the Brits and Yanks spell the same words different.

Ich dank' ja gar nicht, das zu tun.

FluBWind

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A-1 (imported) wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2004 5:55 pm Similarly, the great POO PAHS who edit the dictionaries need to put the language in as it is used, not as the censors approve. Ignoring a word used by millions every day does not change a fucking thing.

A-1

By the way,

A-1 whilst you are laying down the law you should check up on yourself. It is not POO PAH but Pooh-Bah! The expression is taken from Gilbert & Sullivan's light opera 'The Mikado' where following the appointment of Koko as Lord High Executioner all of the nobles resigned their offices in protest except Pooh-Bah who took over their duties (and of course, their salaries) and therefore became known as the 'Lord High Everything Else'. It is used for a person who has a multiplicity of offices or one who gives themselves airs - Not A-1 of course.

Incidentally, for those of you who are lexically challenged (Pooh-Bah speak for can't spell) you can also spell gullible as gullable - both are perfectly correct.

LOL