- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:13:38 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 07/26/2015 04:23 PM, Alan Stearns wrote: > > Sure. Expand and enlarge are synonyms. Either works, and it just happened > to be enlarge that came to mind when I made the change. I don’t quite > understand your nitpicking between the two. Here are the definitions I > find in Dictionary.app: > > become or make larger or more extensive > > make or become bigger or more extensive > > Can you tell which one is which? Do we really need to spend more time > emailing back and forth on this? The difference is in the connotations, not the denotations, and I happen to agree with Brad here -- enlarge has a stronger link to a scaling operation, whereas expand has a stronger link to outsetting a boundary. ~fantasai
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