I frequently see people put asterisks on a specific word in their question, I'm not exactly sure why, lol. Is this at all related to the way it was used in Example 1? Symbol used online for 3 things usually. 1. Bolding or emphasizing a word where font types are unavailable. I’ve seen this used in two major ways. These actions are placed in a set of asterisks.
So my questions is: What does it mean when people put asterisks around A word (not several words, just ONE word), like in Example 1? Example 3: *gasps* No way! 2.
What does it mean when someone puts asterisks on a word? It means the person is doing the action or is pretending to, or that is how they'd react if they were actually talking to someone. posted by ParisParamus to Etiquette/Policy at 12:44 PM (23 comments total) It's like bolding, from years of … A way of setting off a word that gives what you're writing a "tone" without actually leading the reader to believe that you're saying the word. Could someone explain the practice/convention of putting words in *asterisks*? Making a correction to a previous mistake. An action that takes place on a forum or message board to indicate, normally in third person, that the character being controlled by the poster has done an action. First, I’ve seen it used for emphasis, in a similar fashion as italics, particularly in communication tools where text formatting is not available. 3. Not to be confused with asterisk expression. If in response to someone's post, that normally means that they are the direct object of that action. Like, here's a sentence I saw today “Sorry for the *long* question.”
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