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Originally Posted by JSWolf
And before <em> was a thing, nobody complained that <i> was not read correctly.
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That's because by and large, Jon, dear, before "em" existed, semantic markup wasn't really a thing and those listening to books on tape (or whatever media) took what they could get.
As "SomeSteve" mentions, there are crap-tons of books that have large swaths of italicized text, meant for (for example) inner dialogue or telepathic communications or what-have-you. That would have no way to emphasize sokme portion of that inner dialogue or whatever, without em, wouldja?
Hitch