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In the formatting world of self-describing semantic HTML, is used to mark up a citation.
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That one truth is that text marked up as is always emphasized. means emphasized. is one of many self-describing HTML tags that tells you with its name exactly what it does to text.
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But Facebook is telling a different story, one that I find almost shocking: liberals on Facebook are self-describing as liberals.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: On Facebook, It's Good to Be Liberal 2010
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But Facebook is telling a different story, one that I find almost shocking: liberals on Facebook are self-describing as liberals.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: On Facebook, It's Good to Be Liberal 2010
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It may be the influence of PC or reluctance to appear as faux-macho, but I can't imagine self-describing myself as a "man" except in some biological context, and "boy" unfortunately became inapplicable half a century ago.
Balkinization 2007
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It may be the influence of PC or reluctance to appear as faux-macho, but I can't imagine self-describing myself as a "man" except in some biological context, and "boy" unfortunately became inapplicable half a century ago.
Balkinization 2007
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I wouldn't worry too much about "B" ... he/she has posted before from that email address but varies between self-describing as a "liberal Republican" and a "conservative Republican."
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It may be the influence of PC or reluctance to appear as faux-macho, but I can't imagine self-describing myself as a "man" except in some biological context, and "boy" unfortunately became inapplicable half a century ago.
Balkinization 2007
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It may be the influence of PC or reluctance to appear as faux-macho, but I can't imagine self-describing myself as a "man" except in some biological context, and "boy" unfortunately became inapplicable half a century ago.
Balkinization 2007
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It may be the influence of PC or reluctance to appear as faux-macho, but I can't imagine self-describing myself as a "man" except in some biological context, and "boy" unfortunately became inapplicable half a century ago.
Balkinization 2007
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