This week we talked about Graphical EMs.
A style of typeface in which letters are slanted to the right. This is printed in italics.
- "I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."
(J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye)
http://grammar.about.com/od/il/g/italterm.htm
The practice of using capital letters in writing or printing.
Proper nouns, key words in titles, the pronoun I, and beginnings of sentences are generally capitalized. However, certain conventions for capitalizing words, names, and titles vary from one style guide to another.
- Mary's address is 123 Smith Street, Malate, Manila, Philippines.
http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/Capitalization.htm
The intentional violation of the graphical shape of word or word combination used to reflect its authentic pronunciation is called a graphon.
- “The b-b-b-ast-ud seen me c-c-coming”
- “You don’t mean to thay that thith ith your firth time”
- Gimme (give me), lemme (let me), coupla (couple of), gonna (going to), gotta (got to), willya (will you).
Hyphenation – the reflection of rhymed or clipped manner in which a word is uttered.
- I really do n-o-t love you.