Timeline for What does [ABC] mean inside a text?
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| Nov 5, 2020 at 8:08 | history | edited | Eddie Kal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2020 at 6:56 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 3, 2020 at 6:37 | comment | added | Rayan Khan | Does this answer your question? "[I]t literally scared her to death" - Why is "I" in brackets? | |
| Oct 1, 2020 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1311546404834336774 | ||
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| Sep 14, 2020 at 15:28 | comment | added | Canadian Yankee | Check out this style guide on the use of square brackets. | |
| Sep 14, 2020 at 13:08 | history | edited | user119042 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2020 at 12:58 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Sep 14, 2020 at 11:14 | history | edited | Rayan Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2020 at 10:56 | answer | added | JavaLatte | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 14, 2020 at 10:54 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Different style guides will have different positions regarding square brackets - some may specifically identify [sic] as a context that should use square rather than round brackets, for example. Or when quoting otherwise verbatim text, you might put square brackets around some non-verbatim element that you've re-worded for clarity in context. Plus there's a long-established convention in software / technical documentation that we may use them to delineate [optional words]. In short, there are too many possibilities to list here, and your "examples" aren't valid or useful. | |
| Sep 14, 2020 at 9:54 | history | asked | user119042 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |