- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:29:45 +0000
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > They are defined as being different. The former represents emphasis and > the latter importance. That's a hopeless distinction (nor IMHO do the longer descriptions in the draft adequately explain when to use one and when to use the other: the use-cases look interchangeable to me). OED Online (subscription-only) defines "emphasis" as: "Stress of voice laid on a word or phrase to indicate that it implies something more than, or different from, what it normally expresses, or simply to mark its importance." Mirriam-Webster defines "emphasis" as: "force or intensity of expression that gives impressiveness or importance to something": http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/emphasis Thus "stress emphasis" is merely a presentational effect to give importance to something. It's bizarre that the same draft fighting so hard for an unworkable distinction between <em/> and <strong/> also abolishes a potentially useful distinction between acronyms (pronounced as a single word) and other abbreviations. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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