Punctuation as typography (was Re: NATLANG: Geramn /heil/?)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 26, 2005, 19:26 |
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On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:59:52 -0500, caotope <johnvertical@...>
wrote:
>> (PS: I believe in German it's actually /hail/. If you intended to do
>> italics, the accept way to do that is with underscores, thus _heil_,
>> to avoid confusion with phonemic notation.)
>>
>> --
>> Tristan
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> Um, aren't underscores used for underlining? I propose using //two//
> slashes for italics...
Two slashes are for archiphonemes.
Underscores, however crazy, have a sturdy history as ASCII underlining,
being used since time immemorial (more or less) to bracket the titles of
books, films, and other media, traditionally italicised in typeset text.
Paul
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