Re: OT: Gmail (was Re: Conlang Flag art links)
| From: | Sai Emrys <sai@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 1:58 |
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
wrote:
> (There's a lot of people who use bold when they should be using italics,
> but the fact that *asterisks* are pretty much unnoticeable until you're
> directly looking at them, just like italic text, and the fact that
> CAPITAL LETTERS stand out from the surrounding text, just like bold,
> mean that the asterisk = italic, caps = bold is the only logical behavior.)
Bold, to me, does not especially stand out from text except when directly
looked at (nor does underscore). Italics do, caps do.
For me the natural equivalents (motivated just orthographically, I guess)
are _underscore_, /italics/, *bold*, and MY CAPS LOCK IS ON SO I'M SHOUTING
LIKE AN IDIOT.
- Sai
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