Neener, neener, neener!
See, I said "Neener, neener, neener!" first, and that trumps everything!
Seriously, though; it probably stems the time in which one learned ones rules of grammar. The available technology has a lot to do with it. Back when I was learning to type, italicizing on a typewriter meant switching out the typeset balls or daisy wheels, whereas underlining was just a matter of holding down the shift key and backspacing (so as not to invoke the typewriter's correction feature), then striking underscore for the length desired. When my parents were learning to type, italicizing on a typical manual typewriter simply wasn't possible. Today, underlining and italicizing in a word processor are equally easy. For that matter, in ARS, both processes are equally easy--it's just a matter of what tags you choose to use. |
