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If you want to place particular emphasis on a word in a piece of dialogue, you can use italics: "Looking and looking... in all the wrong places." There is also a convention - though admittedl...
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2019-12-12T21:42:33Z (about 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T13:11:13Z (about 5 years ago)
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If you want to place particular emphasis on a word in a piece of dialogue, you can use italics: > "Looking and looking... in _all_ the wrong places." There is also a convention - though admittedly, mostly in visual novels and roleplays - to put a tilde at the end of a sentence in place of a full stop or exclamation mark, to indicate a more playful or sing-song tone of voice: > "Looking and looking... in _all_ the wrong places~" Like any linguistic device, of course, you'll want to avoid over-using these. If everything is in italics, it starts to lose its effectiveness (see: every comic book ever).
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2019-10-28T17:33:45Z (about 5 years ago)
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