After the unprovoked Ptooey I posted yesterday, she has also responded to Divaliscious11's entirely serious story, and quick punctuation correction (below), with a pretty incoherent query.
If any doubt was lingering, I think it's 100% settled now. Use of "no?" to ask for confirmation was anticipated by Ellen further up this same page; PTOOEY is clearly standing in for FOOEY with similar rules of usage; the failure of reading comprehension (if affected) plays out the same way; and finally, I think Jill's responding to a correction in you're/your has special Ellen resonance.
you’re pregnant, not your….
June 23, 2012 at 6:28 pm
- If she did not get pregnant we could not say PTOOEY now, could we? So it’s a good thing no?
Read more: http://corporette.com/2012/06/22/weekend-open-thread-137/#ixzz1yiYbt3Bm
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