arundelo comments on Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules - Less Wrong
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It's probably less work to read character-by-character than to split on words and read the first and last character of each.
And it makes the rare-but-still-occasionally-desired case doable without escaping into HTML (which is not possible in LW's no-HTML subset of Markdown).