PeeperStorm on 14/6/2009 at 02:42
You may also see some old-timers use *asterisks* instead of italics to place emphasis on text. That's what we did back when our computers ran on hay and oats.
demagogue on 14/6/2009 at 03:31
Oh, the emphasized words are there, all right.
But you need a special pair of sunglasses to see them.
I'll do you a favor and make one of them temporarily visible.
They look like this:
<<< OBEY >>>
They're everywhere.
Hewer on 14/6/2009 at 03:59
Quote Posted by PeeperStorm
You may also see some old-timers use *asterisks* instead of
italics to place emphasis on text. That's what we did back when our computers ran on hay and oats.
I still sometimes try to emphasize a word with asterisks- usually sound effect words like *burrrrp* or something. A lot of the time the code just interprets it as bold and the asterisks don't show up anyway.
ercles on 14/6/2009 at 04:05
AlT cApS aRe A gOoD wAy To GeT nOtIcEd!!!
Renzatic on 14/6/2009 at 05:09
Quote Posted by fett
I USE CAPS ALL THE TIME BECAUSE EVERYTHING I SAY IS IMPORTANT
Quit making fun of me. :(
june gloom on 14/6/2009 at 06:21
I find the appropriate use of color to be effective.
For example, why the cornflower blue fuck did you make this thread? I mean, the answers are obvious in that we didn't have to spend 5 pages calling each other names to reach them.
rachel on 14/6/2009 at 08:11
Quote Posted by Tonamel
And because of this, there are no characters with accents on our keyboards. So even when we come across the random word that needs one (because we stole it from French, like melée, cliché, or Pokémon), we generally just go without, because it's a pain to put them in.
Interestingly, I find that using a UK Extended keyboard is much more practical for accents than the French one.
See, AZERTY has a set number of accented characters (é, à, and a few others) and it's a pain if you have to type a non-convenional accent, whereas UK (and possibly US too by extension) has the accent character, that you can put on any letter you want.
It does take a little while to get used to, few weeks or so at most, but once you're there, it's way better.
IMHO, YMMV.
To stay on topic: I use
bold,
italics, *asterisks*. And smaller font type for side remarks. All-caps is for shouting.
PotatoGuy on 14/6/2009 at 08:40
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
What do you even mean by accent marks? I assume you mean putting the word in question inside quotes, like 'this'? That is generally used to denote that the person writing the word in quotes doesn't think that the term is correct. For example, a person might play a game that is generally classified as a horror game, and call it "a 'horror' game" to indicate that he disagrees with it being termed as horror.
Emphasis is generally done with
italics or
bold, or possibly with underlines (though underlines are used more to highlight a sentence rather than a single word.)
I've come across some people who apparently put accents over all the letters in the word, but I don't think that's for emphasis, that's just because they don't know how to write properly.
No, I mean something like this:
When we in the Netherlands say a sentence like: 'What is that?' and we want to emphasize the word 'that', then we write: 'What is thát?'
If you look at some posts of Gloria Creep (also from the Netherlands) you can see she puts thése thíngs on English words sometimes, but I always wondered if that was actually possible in the English language.
But now I know, and I'll just use
this or
this. Thank you all for your help.
nicked on 14/6/2009 at 09:44
I always thought that was people with non-english keyboards instinctively hitting the wrong key! Had no idea it actually mëãnt something. But yeah, in English, it doesn't mean anything.
Koki on 14/6/2009 at 10:05
I do that only when mocking artistês.
