So you know how in magazines and newspapers, when they drop a foreign word in, it's always italicized? (Well, when it's a foreign word which hasn't been completely absorbed into the lexicon, of course.)

I SO WISH FIC-WRITERS WOULD DO THAT.

I was just reading a fic which used the word "bonhomie" which, yes, nice, lovely word, but it being in regular text* caused a mental hiccup.

Which lead to me reading that McKay was filled with bon-bon homies.

Which was QUITE DISTURBING, to say the least. Not that I even knew what it meant. Fortunately, a shocked second perusal of the sentence yielded the correct reading of bonhomie, which made a great deal more sense.

Of course, now I really want to know all about McKay and the bon-bon homies, whom I imagine to be scantily clad young men of the sparkly variety. Who think themselves to be thugs, even though they so obviously aren't. (Also, they probably come from planet I69-GAY, or something.)

*And I've seen it italicized in magazines before. I don't know what, but most likely The New Yorker, because that's the only one I read on a regular basis. I just look at the pictures in all the others.