By "common" I don't mean anything like instant messaging type, but something that you might find in a dictionary.
I know they're used, say, in user names or IDs on sites like Yahoo! but do they actually have a place in common English or are they a product of the cmoputer age?
2007-01-09 09:40:26 · 5 answers · asked by I want my *old* MTV 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
*I meant "computer"
2007-01-09 09:41:27 · update #1
The underscore on the typewriter was originally for underlining words, such as book titles. It continued onto the computer keyboard for use in underlining spaces where necessary and is handy for use in usernames, etc.
2007-01-09 09:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by ShirlD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe they're computer-age, but in text-based browsers and on sites that do not allow markup/markdown, they've become a replacement for underlining. For example, in this _sentence_ the word sentence would be considered underlined.
2007-01-09 09:50:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes underscores are used to identify titles of books or magazines. quotation marks would be used to identify an individual story in the book or magazine.
2007-01-09 09:49:01 · answer #3 · answered by Richard H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just for emailing/ids/names, not to be used in words! ;)
2007-01-09 09:43:50 · answer #4 · answered by ~V@NN@H~ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thats a good en
2007-01-09 09:43:28 · answer #5 · answered by david b 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋