Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
I don't believe it's a fallacious arguemnt. Let me cast it for you slightly differently:
Choices for inline text markup coding should be made so as to collide with the least possible number of already extant uses of that set of punctuation.
Okay, so let's use "@*$&#^@(&#^$(#@" for italics and "!(&@^$(&@^$#@&%" for bold. Since, obviously, they collide with pretty few extant uses.
Timwi