Quotation marks are not for emphasis! That's what asterisks are for.
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I agree with you on quotes, but can you point me to a reference on this use of asterisks? I am not familiar with it at all. Is this an non-English convention?
It's an informal plain text (IRC, text mail, etc) convention. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk pic.twitter.com/IH3b6bEzSU
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I find it to be a relatively recent development; my IRC/ICQ youth read like <other> How are you holding up? <transcendor> Quite well, thanks for asking *hug* or <other> When did you do THAT? <transcendor> Well, I made it up as I went along *g* i.e. *verb* as op/state marker.
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Yes. I still use *verb* as well. But I feel [verb] is also becoming pretty common. I've just seen this excellent not-written-by-me example in my timeline. Uses "so-called", *emphasis*, and [action] all in one tweet. https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1189740827498733568 …
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Also it is pretty common to use it as markup for bold text, eg. WhatsApp:pic.twitter.com/H7wc1Y5qUS
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I think the idea is still emphasis. Like some markdown implementations render *this* italic and others render it bold. Like <em>...</em> in HTML.
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