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Wix comments on Are the bacteria/parasites in your gut affecting your thinking? - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: witzvo 09 June 2012 10:37AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 June 2012 06:56:14PM 1 point [-]

I had I teacher in microbiology that envisioned a world were people would go on regular gut-flora checkups.

Comment author: Alicorn 09 June 2012 11:51:34PM 2 points [-]

Your italicization practices puzzle me.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 June 2012 12:02:50AM 0 points [-]

Do you mean in general? I tend to overuse it, cause I think it has nice look to it - bad habit a guess, but since I was introducing a new term (albeit rather useless one) I thought it was appropriate.

Comment author: witzvo 10 June 2012 12:28:19AM 1 point [-]

I liked it. It emphasized the surprising part of the sentence.