Mignon Fogarty: Thank you, Nadine. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me here today. I, I used to live in the Bay Area and it's, it's great to be back. Great to
Mignon Fogarty: 'They'. You could. Embrace the plural be on the leading edge. I mean that's probably what I would do. Yeah? >>Male Audience Member #3:
Mignon Fogarty: You could definitely drop the second 'he' or 'she'. 'Tell the next caller that he or she wins , is the hundredth caller and wins a car.' So it's not so bad because
Mignon Fogarty: 'They' is okay if you're willing to take a little bit of heat. So and I tell people, I say, 'Be bold. Use "they". Fight for advancement
Mignon Fogarty: Um hmm. >>Male Audience Member #6: Mignon Fogarty: It's true. No, you're right. Some people,
Mignon Fogarty: So it's seems so simple. It's your, their with the apostrophes. And it's true. When you go to YouTube and you see the comments, it's always the wrong 'its'
Mignon Fogarty: Okay. >>Male Audience Member #9: I was wearing Levis and an apostrophe might look >>Mignon Fogarty: Yes.
Mignon Fogarty: Hmm? >>Male Audience Member #12: McMahon?
Mignon Fogarty: McMahon as for a name. I guess that would be camel case. It comes up so much more often with the name of companies or the band OutKast. They capitalize the K.
Mignon Fogarty: It is. >>Male Audience Member #13: We donít need to know as much classic grammar as before. >>Mignon Fogarty: Yeah. The one I was really
Mignon Fogarty: It's actually one of my pet peeves too. So people will say,
Mignon Fogarty: Okay. >>Audience Member: When is it appropriate to use underlines in printed text versus italics? >>Mignon Fogarty: Hmm. Well it depends on,
Male Audience Member #4: >>Mignon Fogarty: 'Tell the next caller that the caller is the hundredth caller.' 'Tell the, tell the next
person' >>Male Audience Member #4: Mignon Fogarty: 'that ñ' Yeah. I mean I cannot think of another way to do this without
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know. >>Mignon Fogarty: That one you know. Okay.
sentence? >>Mignon Fogarty: Yeah. The period always goes inside the quotation marks. And that actually brings up an interesting point. So you capitalize nicknames but you don't capitalize terms of endearment. And this is something
versus 'which'? >>Mignon Fogarty: 'That' versus 'which'. Yeah.
Male Audience Member #1: She. >>Mignon Fogarty: She, you could. One of my listeners called that 'whiplash grammar'. So you could say, 'Tell the next caller that
Is it okay to say ëForumsí? >>Mignon Fogarty: Forums? Oh. Is it fora?
Male Audience Member #13: Yeah. >.Mignon Fogarty: Yeah.
pairs of Levis at home.' >>Male Audience Member #10: twenties in my pocket. >>Mignon Fogarty: Right. And that's when it's much more common for people to use apostrophes like after an abbreviation, CD's. We had 50
clauses so it can that indicate a difference? >>Mignon Fogarty: Um hmm. So usually you don't put a comma before 'but'. So the commas are super-tricky. They're like 25 different comma
'they' and that is probably what I would do. I would embrace the 'they' and Male Audience Member #5: >>Mignon Fogarty: S-SLASH-HE. S-she. And they
Yeah? >>Male Audience Member #7: Do you have any idea how that practice started? >>Mignon Fogarty: I don't know how it started.
Male Audience Member #9: One thing Iíve been wondering about. I see people think that all plurals need apostrophes. >>Mignon Fogarty: I'm sorry. Could you stand
Male Audience Member #9: Is an apostrophe wrong? Do you skip it when it's a word like trousers or ? >>Mignon Fogarty: So the question was about
Male Audience Member #9: I think CD is actually a better example. I find myself wondering should I say C-D-S? >>Mignon Fogarty: Yeah. It's C-D-s with no
a question. >>Male Audience Member #11: I'm just wondering what you think about camel case. >>Mignon Fogarty: Camel case. I covered that
Male Audience Member #14: Oh. Okay. >>Male Audience Member #15: What if you have a font that doesnít have italics? >>Mignon Fogarty: If you're in a font that
I'm pretty loud too. Let's say you're using a nickname. You're putting that in quotes, right? >>Mignon Fogarty: Um hmm.