civildisobedient

civildisobedient t1_jdqzqum wrote

Reply to comment by hateboss in "Potato" chips vs Potato chips by Doctuh

No, they would use underline. Using quotation marks like this predates the typewriter by a few hundred years:

> The 1549 edition of a French book entitled Champ Fleury, for instance, set Latin quotations in italics, creating a precedent for later books to employ quotation marks or italics to call out text that their authors felt was worthy of note. The marking of such “gnomic utterances or sententiae”—weighty, proverbial or otherwise notable aphorisms—was immensely popular among readers and writers of the time

Also, Boomers (born in the 40s-50s) were already young adults by the 1970s and 80s and would thus be pretty familiar with keyboards and computers.

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civildisobedient t1_j9ywjt2 wrote

Important bits for the lazy:

> It can be an Unfair Trade Practice to refuse to honor the Maine Implied Warranty Law within four years of sale. The basic test for possible implied warranty violations is as follows: > > * The item is seriously defective, > * The consumer did not damage the item, > * The item is still within its useful life and is not simply worn out.

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civildisobedient t1_itssrgx wrote

Get in front of them, then slow down to even slower speeds. Once they get out of the lane to try and go around you... speed up.

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