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> For the rest of us the tilde clearly acts as a stand-in for the key phrase under discussion
yeah, but we've given dale a hard time about using it. I thought tsu's tongue was firmly planted en chic...
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*This is a local convention used in a semi-jocular shorthand for italicisation or other vocal emphasis. Every speech community accretes its own slang and customs. What can I say? - get over it. [/shrug]
_Sorry_, I've been a member of this "speech community" for quite some time now, and somehow this meme didn't get accreted on to me yet. Where I'm from _this_ is emphasis, in case you ever visit my speech community.
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To be a little more specific the single leading asterisk signifies a *slight emphasis rather than the *strong* emphasis indicated by the combined leading and trailing asterisks. This is what tsuwm was getting at with his slightly cryptic *emPHAsis and *EMPHASIS*.
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Quite right, Myr - I would expect to learn the custom, just like visiting _any_ new territory. I perhaps assumed too much in figuring the meta-reference to the [/shrug] code would suggest no heavy hand was intended but. As to giving Dale a hard time (apart from the fact it's obviously mandatory!) I had got the impression his usage of the tilde was *singularly opaque, having often omitted to make entirely clear what the reference point was. 
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his usage of the tilde was *singularly opaque, having often omitted to make entirely clear what the reference point was.
In some contexts it's standard usage. One can hardly fault someone for using something he considers standard usage.
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>In some contexts it's standard usage. One can hardly fault someone for using something he considers standard usage.
the context where I've seen tilde used in this fashion is in dictionaries (representing the headword). which this ain't.
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Gosh. I thought tsuwm was making fun of Dale when he used the tilde.
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> tsuwm was making fun
> I thought tsu's tongue was firmly planted en chic...
yup.
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