Thread:War Pig1237/@comment-25841881-20160109212221

Your grammar has improved much since you started out on the wiki. This is good. However, one thing that has not improved, in fact has seemed to lessen in quality, is your usage of italics. I find that around 90% of the italics you use serve no purpose but increasing the difficulty of reading. It seems, at least to me, like you are just adding italics to all of your writing to make you seem better. I mean no offense by this. Here are 6 generally accepted times to use italics:

1. Titles. This is a common usage, and is taught quite early on in school. Really straightforward. Italicize titles.

2. Names of vehicles. A slightly more complex way to use italics, but still very similar to titles. When a vehicle has a certain name associated to it, like the Titanic, it should be underlined. When you are talking about a type of vehicle, like a Ford Explorer, it should not be italicized.

3. Foreign words. When a non-English word is being used in English writing, it should be italicized. An exception to this is with words that are commonly used and have become recognized as part of the English language, like Alumni or Et Cetera.

4. Words being used as words. This is perhaps the most complex of the italicizing rules. When a word is being used to represent the word, not the meaning of the word, it is italicized. For example, "potato sounds interesting" would mean that the word sounds interesting, whereas "potato sounds tasty" means the food sounds tasty.

5. Emphasis. This is really simple. Italicize things to show emphasis. This may be what you think of your italics as, but they aren't. When I read through your writing, I pronounce all of your italics as if I wanted to make sure someone understood that word. When I do that, I somewhat slow my speech and pronounce the word louder, as is customary to show emphasis. This makes many of your sentences make pretty much no sense. Take the sentence "I have merely possesed the mod, since its beta seventeen release." Aside from the odd grammatical flow with that comma placed there, which makes it mean that merely is referring to the possession of the mod instead of the time you have possessed it, the italicizing makes no sense in that context. Why would you want to make sure people heard and understood the word mod?

6. Words as reproduced sounds. When you pronounce a sound that is not speech, like a growl, then you italicize it. With a growl, it would be something like Grrrrr!

Please do not take any offense, as I know people are prone to take my advice as insult, I mean no harm by it, and only want you to improve further.

Recneps (Temp Mod) Supreme Ruler (Fill My Mailbox) 21:22, January 9, 2016 (UTC) 