Independent of the post, does anybody else find the OCCASIONAL BOLD PHRASES very distracting? I can't make up my mind whether to READ THEM WITH EMHPASIS, as one might hear in verbal speech, or try to find a CLEVER HIDDEN MESSAGE from the author.
In my experience, that's how many Microsofties compose their email, to emphasize the important bits of a document that few readers will bother to fully read.
And why not? What better way to take advantage of the MS-Word Rich Text Editor in Outlook than to bold random phrases.
It's Atwood-style, and I definitely find it really distracting. Every series of bold words is read by the voice in my head loudly and toneless, the way Americans yell English to foreigners.
I also found it odd how every cultural reference pointed (usually unhelpfully) to the corresponding wikipedia article. Didn't hurt the content of the post, it was just kinda.. odd.
