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j2kun on Aug 26, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: 'StarCraft' Gameplay Boosts Mental Flexibility, Sa...

Why the scarequotes around Starcraft? Is it...not really Starcraft?

kmfrk on Aug 26, 2013 [–]

StarCraft is the title of a work, and as such should probably be either italicized or put in quotes cf. the WSJ style manual.

Italicization is obviously not possible in plain text, so their style manual would prescribe that the title of the work is set in quotes.

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