The post that gets the most hits on this site, by far, is the one I wrote last January complaining about the practice of styling block quotes so that they are automatically italicized. In a nutshell, I argued that italics are not just esthetic. They can change the actual meaning of a phrase, and when [...]
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Block quotes revisited
Posted by Mo on July 21, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/block-quotes-revisited/
Pet peeve: italicized block quotes
I had already started drafting this post when the lovely folks at wordpress.com posed the question “if you could change one thing about your theme what would it be?” My answer applies not only to Twenty Ten but many other themes as well. What I would change is the heavily-styled block quotes. Many themes sport [...]
Posted by Mo on January 8, 2011
http://moander.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/pet-peeve-italicized-block-quotes/
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