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Originally Posted by jackie_w
I can't argue with that - which is why I don't understand what the point is of debating whether <i> or <em> is the 'right' option. It looks more like a philosophical/religious debate than a practical one. Everything I read with the eyeballs displays both as italic. Everything I listen to ignores both equally.
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100% with you on the nature of the debate. But if you read say,
Esmeralda's Barn, as a location reference at the start of a chapter or scene it would sound different, in your head, to something like this:
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Ashen faced, Jacob spun around saying, 'Griselda! For God's sake, Esmeralda's Barn
you were there last night? Don't you know what that place is?'
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For the first I would tend to use <i> for the typographical effect, for the second I would use <em> for the melodramatic effect then TTS might one day be able to read them appropriately. Better finish what I started:
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Griselda interrupted with, 'Cousin Esmeralda may have her restaurant out in the sticks of Gloucestershire, but it's not in a converted barn in some farmer's muddy field. It's located in a rather nice Regency terrace in the middle of Cheltenham, and it's name is Le petit nuage blanc you nincompoop. Bah, brothers, why do we have to have them? So tell me about this barn of which you seem to know so much.'
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