Comments on: Italicizing Foreign Words

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:52:27 +0000

is it bad form to use real latin words when using magical spells in fiction? Or should you just make up the word?

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:51:04 +0000

I run a magazine for foreigners living in Japan, and my editing staff and I run into this question a lot. Opinion is split down the middle between our staff. Because the bulk of our readers are residents of Japan, my personal stance is that there’s no reason to italicize Japanese words. They aren’t foreign to our audience and there’s no need to point them out as such. Ultimately, we leave the decision up to our contributors. If someone italicizes the Japanese, we leave it italicized. But if someone doesn’t italicize their foreign words, then we don’t go in and change that.

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:48:42 +0000

@ Rebecca and niranjana-use footnotes

By: niranjana

niranjana — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:57:28 +0000

how should i explain d meaning of a italicized paragraph?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:01:30 +0000

Where do I explain what the foreign word means?