for nerds only:

[p0tat0es]

Would it be redundant to italicize the word 'emphatically'? Ya know, to, like, put emphasis on it?

I ask because I was rereading an email I sent to my boss where I did just that. And now it is going to haunt me forever and ever.

Comments

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing he didn't use quotes in the e-mail, just in the post--which is correct. :) But italics, yeah, that's probably redundant, but most folks wouldn't care.

[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

Here's the sentence:

I emphatically recommend cutting these customers off.

(It wasn't bold originally.)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really that's not too bad. A little verbal overkill never hurt nobody.

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

-snickers-

Could you BE any more emphatic?

(Perhaps only if you'd written: I emphatically recommend...)

Dude. You've lost all your sexy nerd cred...

[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

Riiiiight :)

[allegedly.livejournal.com]

I wonder... Would it have been more redundant to write:

I emphatically recommend...?

I think so.