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   From: jerry_friedman@yahoo.com   
      
   On 5/17/16 3:09 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:   
   > On 17/05/16 09:35, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> Save the Allegory!   
   >   
   >  pick...>   
   >   
   > Save the "use-mention" distinction!   
   >   
   >> An entire literary tradition is being forgotten because writers use   
   >> the term allegory to mean, like, whatever they want.   
   >   
   > Writers do not use the term allegory, whatever a term allegory might be.   
   > They do, however, sometimes use (and indeed abuse) the term 'allegory'.   
   > The author of the article is /mentioning/ the word 'allegory', not using   
   > it, and so it is necessary to use extra punctuation to mark off the   
   > mentioned word.   
   ...   
      
   It's italicized in the original article.   
      
      
      
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