From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Bob is guilty of   
    as of   
   8/11/2021 7:01:46 AM   
   > On Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 7:46:39 PM UTC-4, Snidely wrote:   
   >> On Tuesday, Questor queried:   
   >>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 13:59:21 -0700 (PDT), Roger House <61rr...@gmail.com>   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>> When you, (I'm not referring to any particular person, I'm using "you"   
   >>>> generically), are typing, like in word or word perfect for example, on a   
   >>>> computer or a word processing machine, is there any way to fully   
   >>>> underline,  *NOT* underscore, but underline, a word like you can/used to   
   >>>> be able to do  on a typewriter?   
   >>>   
   >>> I am failing to grasp the distinction between "underlining" and   
   >>> "underscoring." They are considered the same thing in my mind, unless you   
   >>> are  literally going to cut or crease (score) the paper.   
   >   
   >> Roger doesn't want an underscore /character/, he wants a word or phrase   
   >> _underlined_.   
   >>   
   >> /dps "in the raw score"   
   >>   
   >> --   
   > Unless you're using a typewriter, how is that even an issue?  There are   
   > characters that are underlined, and characters that are not.   The underline   
   > makes up part of the character.  An underscore can't be added retroactively   
   > unless you have a way to backspace.   
      
   Underscore is an ASCII (and unicode) character.  I have used one at   
   each end of "underlined" in the post you responded to.  Since you're   
   using GG, you should see it that way.  My newsreader converts that to   
   underlining because it understands the usenet convention.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   "That’s where I end with this kind of conversation: Language is   
   crucial, and yet not the answer."   
     Jonathan Rosa, sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist,   
   Stanford.,2020   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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