Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
Three years after Oz and Ends suggested using backslant (i.e., left-leaning italics) as a way to signal written sarcasm, Sartalics.com has take up the suggestion.
They offer links to an online petition.
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
2 comments:
That's an interesting idea. I wonder if it would get the same resistance that using regular italics for emphasis gets in literature; some say if the emphasis isn't clear from the context, rewrite...
Yeah, I’ve made it a point of pride to avoid smileys in emails, figuring that forces me to convey the tone another way. Of course, it doesn't always work.
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