Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Windows is "too" popular, with "too
> many" users, and it's owned by a single company, so it's basically
> impossible for them to listen to all of them.

  Rather funny. Reading that again, I notice that someone could mistake
that as me misusing quotes for emphasis, even though I really used them
legitimately, ie. to de-emphasize, ie. to mean "not to be interpreted
literally" (in other words. like: "too popular (well, not really, at least
not from Microsoft point of view)").

  I wonder if the misconception about quotes-can-be-used-for-emphasis has
originated with something like that.

  (Another theory I have is this: Cursive is often used in literature for
emphasis. Cursive is *also* used in literature, especially in articles and
academic texts, to denote things like titles (eg. publications or books).
When cursive is not available, then usually quotes are used for the same
purpose (eg. 'in his book "I, Robot", Asimov presents a grim view of the
future'). Since both cursive and quotes are interchangeable in things like
book titles, maybe someone got confused and thought that cursive and quotes
are also interchangeable when denoting emphasis.)

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                                                          - Warp

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