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[Question] Italics on auxiliary verbs
  • Is that it? I've been trying to figuring it for quite a while and it seems so obvious after you said it. I do know that bolds and all caps being used for emphasis, never thought about that italics in the same light, or, I supposed, soft emphasis.

    Thanks!!

  • Using expectEqual
  • If we look at the signature expectEqual(expected: anytype, actual: @TypeOf(expected)) !void, notice that the second arg's type depends on the first arg's type.

    To avoid using @as coercion, we can just swap the passing arguments. comptime_int can be inferred as i64, not the other way around. And that makes sense because literal values are unsized.

  • What motivated you to start learning English, and how has your journey been so far?
  • Many reasons! Here are a few:

    • Understand technical materials better and faster. (Primary)
    • Not missing out English conversations in my country.
    • Defending myself in English arguments.

    I wish my English were as good as my Mandarin. Have been practicing on Reddit for more than a year and have improved a lot since then! But still lack some basic language sense and find it challenging to express abstract concepts precisely and concisely.

    ps: hmm... lemmy.world server kind of unstable

  • Italics on auxiliary verbs

    As far as I can tell, italics are used as an alternative to quotes or double quotes. However, there is one usage that perplexes me: when they're used on auxiliary verbs. For example,

    • I didn’t even know she had a boy friend.
    • Oh my god, they really can write!
    • If you can do that, you should.
    • But what I can guarantee is that...

    I've seen this kind of writing on Reddit and Lemmy for quite a while, but still can't grasp it: when and how?

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