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One of my big forum nonos is to put things in CAPS when I want to emphasize something. I realize that it might seem to others like I'm SCREAMING...when I really should just use italics.
What's one of YOUR favorite forum/email/internet nonos?
If you want it to be possessive, it's just "I-T-S." But, if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's "I-T-apostrophe-S," scalawag!
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Extraneous exclamation points? frag P.S. Did you mean to capitalize whimsically and use an ellipsis in your thread title? I guess the use of "you" and the parentheses was also deliberate. Hrmmph. I was going to say something different but I can't remember what it was.
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Oh, yeah. I sometimes italicize movie titles and sometimes use quotes. It may look like I'm just ignorant, but deep down I'm very judgemental about which movies have the stature of a play or book and which are more like a magazine article. i.e. "Shark Tale" vs. Finding Nemo .
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quote: It may look like I'm just ignorant, but deep down I'm very judgemental about which movies have the stature of a play or book and which are more like a magazine article. i.e. "Shark Tale" vs. Finding Nemo
HAH! I like that! I might just adopt that as a convention myself!
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quote:Oh, yeah. I sometimes italicize movie titles and sometimes use quotes. It may look like I'm just ignorant, but deep down I'm very judgemental about which movies have the stature of a play or book and which are more like a magazine article. i.e. "Shark Tale" vs. Finding Nemo .
I pretty much use quotation marks to designate the titles of things (books, films, TV shows) because I truly hate having to go down and click on "italics", type in the words to be italicized, and then click to add them to the text of my post. Quotation marks are just so much easier. Posts: 2454 | Registered: Jan 2003
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I *emphasize* things with *asterics* instead of italics because it's easier to do, and I got into the habit with purely ASCII communicaiton.
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But... but... but... I LIKE capitalizing for emphasis. It gets the point across!!!! And so do lots and lots and LOTS Of exclamation points!!! NYAH!!
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asterisks are both. It netspeak, they mean actions (typically in infinitive form *grin*). But in the days before everybody had access to typesetting programs, asterisks were used to indicate words that would be *italicized*, and underscores were used to indicate words that would be _underlined_. MS Word can be set to recognize this, for oldtimers who can't break the habit.
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quote:MS Word can be set to recognize this, for oldtimers who can't break the habit.
I think my copy of Word sets *word* to bold not italic.
Also, for people who want easier access to BB code, the BBCode Firefox Extension is quite a little useful tool. You can highlight text in your entry box and make it bold, italic, underlined, etc. I'm playing around with it now.
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Sentence fragments. And short, incomplete sentences. Those are two of my NoNos. (I'm also a terrible sucker for parenthesis, and dashes -- isn't there a more technical term for dashes?). I got my habit for elipses from Narnia . . . *curses Narnia*
I HARDLY EVER USE CAPS OR ITALICS. Or exclamation points!!!
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I think it's really rude when someone stays away from the boards for a year or so and then just strolls back in like she owns the place.
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And I only use all caps instead of italics because I'm lazy -- it is so much easier to hit the SHIFT key than to type in the code or hit the italics button at the bottom.
quote: And I only use all caps instead of italics because I'm lazy -- it is so much easier to hit the SHIFT key than to type in the code or hit the italics button at the bottom.
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