Italics and spam

It always irritates me when fantasy novels use italics for made-up words. I know this is standard practice. I know this is recommended practice when using foreign words that are not yet commonly used in our own language. But it still annoys me. I can't stop myself from reading it with a bit of mental emphasis, and it continually slightly throws out my reading of a sentence. You'd think I'd have got used to it by now, but no. I'm the same with italicised ship names. For me, nautical tales are positively riddled with confusing emphases.

Totally unrelated to the above, several recent spam emails have had very pleasing subject headers. I seem to have deleted most of them, but these two remain:

"The debt locates the jaded account"

"The grumpy company inspires the cook."

I fear that I have been mistaken for a spy, and my failure to reply with the correct countersign will result in Consequences.