autistic text formatting survey
which is more powerful for doing that thing with the text, title case or italics?
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re: autistic text formatting survey
also, how do you describe what formatting like this is meant to convey? i've struggled to put it into words, maybe a textual equivalent to a wink or a knowing look or a significant glance? like, "this phrase has a non-literal meaning as a reference to some assumed-to-be shared knowledge", like, this piece of text is not a literal phrase but rather the name of an idea??
like
- "time for my landlord to do that thing landlords do" (what? what's that referring to?)
- "time for my landlord to do That Thing Landlords Do" (oh, i'll bet she's referring to this thing she hates about landlords in particular)
re: autistic text formatting survey
oh, maybe it's like, marking a reference as local rather than global. local to an individual relationship, to things friends commonly know about the speaker, or even a broader community reference. or possibly like, the field the discussion is happening under?
i think it often has a sort of ironic or self-deprecating tone because explicitly marking a reference's locality is a way of saying "ok when i say , i don't mean it the normal way, i mean it like, the Me Bullshit keyed to that phrase"