Subject: [FFML] Re: Angle bracket use (was FFML List Review for August 4 to August 12)
From: "Saotome Genma" <saotome_genma@hotmail.com>
Date: 9/2/2001, 9:30 PM
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Subject: [FFML] Re: Angle bracket use (was FFML List Review for August 4 to August 12)

As someone who's guilty of using angle brackets to denote thoughts, I feel I
have to say something here.

I have always used them in my fanfiction because I can't use italics.

And I HAVE seen published authors use italics to represent the thoughts of
characters, so I'm assuming the fanfiction use of angle brackets evolved to
replace the use of italics (that can't be used in plain text).

On a related note Mercedes Lackey (for instance) uses ::as the delimiter for
telepathy::

But I suspect this is one of those topics that will 'Go straight to Off-Topic, not
pass Jusenkyo, not collect 200 fiancees'.

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