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Finally, someone actually® uses an asterisk as it's *supposed.
I've never quite figured out what this board's unique usage of the asterisk is. I've seen it used in olden times gone by as a marker of footnotes; in linguistics it first marked hypothetical reconstructions and second ungrammatical sentences; after finding onlinehood asterisks delimited some sort of emphasis. But now here I see a single asterisk, prepended to a word, and I gotta wonder. Is there a locus classicus for this usage?
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