On 06/13/2021 04:36 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2021-06-13 at 17:30, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: ...Regarding the asterisks, I used them in many text to make emphasis, including in some text that go out in printed form. Started doing so when I was still in university and transcribing my notes after the day.Certainly better than the current apparent trend of using quotation marks to do so...
Those of us who learned to read and write in the 50's may interpret a word surrounded by quotation marks as having a different, or even contrary, meaning compared to a dictionary's entry.