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Date: Friday, 3 December 2004 23:42 (UTC)You consider "vice versa" to be foreign? Or do you mean, just when you write in German it's considered foreign?
What I'll never understand is why some people feel the need to differentiate between the <em> tag and the <i> tag, or between the <strong> tag and the <bold> tag. I once had a friend edit some HTML for my web page (this was back before CSS; heck, it was back when the use of frames was highly controversial) and he insisted it was no longer preferred to use the <i> tag and changed all my <i>'s to <em>'s.