- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:51:48 +0000
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 7/28/15, 8:13 AM, "fantasai" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: >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. I don’t agree, but I’ve made the change so that everyone can stop wasting time on this.
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