: EVIDENTLY, THIS FORUM CAN'T EVEN AGREE ON HOW TO
: INTERPRET THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. THAT MUST BE EITHER A
: REALLY GOOD SIGN, OR A REALLY BAD ONE. Did I leave the
: caps lock key on? Oops. How silly of me. Anyway, I
: think living memory is one thing, and evidently a
: lotta people DISAGREE with me. Oh, well. We're
: probably never going to figure out what the writer of
: that quote meant by it unless we ask him. And I have
: absolutely no idea why we would do that. It would
: actually clear one of these issues up.
Living memory is anything that you know to be fact, whether you saw it or read it or its recorded in history, etc. Living memory as opposed to memory which is just personal experience. So you can't remember seeing Julius Caesar in power in Rome but it did happen so it can be placed under living memory.
: Was the Watcher an Avatar? No, siree. But
You just said he was in a post immediately before this.
: I'm trying to show emphasis. I'm not fond of CAPS, I'm
: more fond of italics. Until such point as I figure out
: (or someone deigns to tell me) how to make italics
: here (i really don't think there is, cuz I've tried
: copy-paste from word processors).
Use the html tag: at the start of the text you want italicised then put: to return to plain text.
