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Subject: Re: what is it with this @i(mumble) stuff?
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Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 21:11:09 EDT
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Laura asks, "what is it with this @i(mumble) stuff?"
I asked that of someone who had posted an article
containing such a construction, about eight months ago.
He told me that this is they way one indicates
to the scribe text formatter, that a phrase should
be in italics.  He told me that he had seen other
people use it, so he felt it was a generally understood
convention.

My initial reaction was the same as Laura's;  I tuned
out the part I didn't understand, and tried to figure
out what the person was saying by context.  
	Cordially, Geo Swan, Integrated Studies, University of Waterloo
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