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I cannot tell you how embarrassingly long it took me to realize that "MILF" stood for "Mother {I'd Like to Fuck|R E L A T I V E C L A U S E}" rather than "{Mother|V O C A T I V E}, I'd Like to Fuck"
What the fuck is this markdown witchcraft
Ruby characters, or furigana!
Ruby characters are primarily intended to be used for showing the pronunciations of Chinese characters ({汉|hàn}{字|zì} / {漢|かん}{字|じ}), but there is absolutely nothing stopping you from using ruby characters for whatever you like, as indeed many manga and occasionally anime often do. Seriously, if you watch anime, keep your eyes out for furigana! I can name several examples of interesting uses of furigana in manga and anime off the top of my head.
In HTML, ruby characters are written as 汉hàn; Lemmy added support for ruby characters I think in late 2023, and their markdown is quite simply {汉|hàn}. In the above comment, however, I decided to put spaces between all the letters in "RELATIVE CLAUSE" and "VOCATIVE" such that the letters would be evenly spread out, as otherwise it comes out as "{I'd like to fuck|RELATIVE CLAUSE}" where the words are just too far spaced out and it doesn't look good, or "{I'd like to fuck|RELATIVE-CLAUSE}" where there's too much empty space to the sides and it doesn't look good either.
Oh cool, I didn’t know there was Markdown for that.