All errors and inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and italicization have been retained, except as noted below. |
The effect is bullying, and, worse, bathetic: we have probably already predicted the joke by the time we reach its italicization. |
Inconsistent hyphenation and italicization have been retained as-is within the text. |
In effect, the practice of italicization allows the presentation of a language to become a part of the language itself. |
Finally, a minor quibble concerns the lack of italicization of foreign words which can sometimes impede reading. |
Here, we have a case in which an expression is quoted not by means of quotation marks but by means of italicization. |