# "\_" and "\*" being synonymous is redundant and confusing

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/--and-being-synonymous-is-redundant-and-confusing/282>\
**Category:** Spec\
**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 11:43am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/--and-being-synonymous-is-redundant-and-confusing/282 "2014-09-04T11:43:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![cirosantilli](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/cirosantilli/32/145_2.png) [@cirosantilli](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/cirosantilli)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/--and-being-synonymous-is-redundant-and-confusing/282/12 "2014-09-05T22:24:34Z")

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Larger list of syntax duplications which I think should also be deprecated from the language and later removed: [https://github.com/karlcow/markdown-testsuite/issues/53](https://github.com/karlcow/markdown-testsuite/issues/53) . Analogous for code blocks: [We should abandon indented code blocks](http://talk.commonmark.org/t/we-should-abandon-indented-code-blocks/182)

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