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Brian M. Scott <BMScott@stratos.net> wrote in message
news:382459D6.1193@stratos.net...
| Peter T. Daniels wrote:
|
| > Ian Molton wrote:
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| [...]
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| > > Actually, thats incorrect on usenet - /.../ is italic, _..._ is
| > > underline, and *...* is bold.
|
| > Well, now, I've only been doing this for two and a half years, but I
| > have NEVER seen /      / used for anything except (in linguistics) its
| > usual meaning in linguistics, namely, a phonemic transcription.
|
| I've seen it used for emphasis by one or two people, and I always
| wondered why on earth they didn't use underscore or *...*; now I assume
| that they had at some point encountered this obscure convention.

I've seen slashes used for emphasis in at least one ng (sci.bio.evolution?),
whether it specifically means italics for them I don't know.  In
Linguistics, of course, the slashes are already spoken for to delimit
phonemic transcription, so you wouldn't expect it to be the convention in
sci.lang, though an outsider couldn't be expected to know that.  Outside of
sci.lang I've also seen the underscore used to delimit italics in genus and
species names (or other Latin biological classifications).  The point is,
different newsgroups have different conventions, and most of the ones I read
don't use /.../ for italics.

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