MDN on the topic of <i> vs. <em> seems to support this usage:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/em#%3Ci%3E_vs._%3Cem%3E …
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Is it just me who uses both <em> and <i> on different occasions depending on whether text requires emphasis or mere italics, and sometimes both nested when needed
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It's the exact same deal with <strong> and <b>, <ins> and <u> and <del> and <strike>
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em is perfectly fine semantic markup, and I would argue that i is the best semantic markup for stuff that's stylistically required to be in italics e.g. foreign words but has no other semantic element associated with it (book titles etc should generally be cite)
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I do that! At least, if I actually can. If a comment section has HTML support but allows <em> and not <i>, that's going to annoy me. (If it uses BBCode or Markdown or something I generally don't pay attention to which tag it uses, though.)
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It informs text to speech readers, so I always try to use it that way
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It is absolutely correct and I do it all the time.
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