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Topic : Re: Should I italicize neologisms created by communities? For example, should I italicize words like neg and kino? Words created by the pick-up artists/seduction community? (I'm writing a novel where - selfpublishingguru.com

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: Re: Should I italicize neologisms created by communities? For example, should I italicize words like neg and kino? Words created by the pick-up artists/seduction community? (I'm writing a novel where

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I might italicize them the first time, in narration, to emphasize that they are neologisms, and then have a definition immediately afterwards. Once you've defined the term, though, you don't have to italicize it again.

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