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Reply to comment by nikzuko in "BLOOD SPORT: The Bondi Gay Murders" (2009) - the tale of the Bondi Beach murders. Lasting for over 10 years, with 30 to 90 victims, the organized hunt for gay men remains one of Australia's darkest secrets. Most of the identified culprits, including a major sports star, remain untouched. [00:54:19] by BurtGummer1911
I was mostly being kidding, I already said the way it probably should have been written in a different comment. Also just so you know, they are parentheses, not brackets. Brackets are these [bracket]
Ah, didn't catch that. And yep, my bad. Parentheses*
U good!
"Bracket" covers both in English, to the extent that [ ] are even called "square brackets" and { } are called "curly brackets" (sometimes "braces").
I've now semantically satiated the word "bracket" and it all looks like gibberish. Had to double check!
“Parentheses are the curved brackets "( )". They are also called round brackets, curved brackets, oval brackets, or, colloquially, parens.”
So, parentheses mean the same thing in non American English.
Haha yeah I getcha but that person was using parentheses, not either form of brackets. Although, maybe parentheses are called brackets in other places or something?
These () are called brackets in non-US English.
Ah that’s interesting. No fucking idea why I have downvotes on that lol. Damn people are sensitive as shit. They’re called parentheses in English, which is all i was saying. Not mad at u, but downvoting my comment literally makes no fucking sense lol.
Edit: “Parentheses are the curved brackets "( )". They are also called round brackets, curved brackets, oval brackets, or, colloquially, parens.”
So, parentheses is STILL correct in non-American English, it’s a more specific way of saying curved brackets.
Because it’s annoying to “correct” people on their English when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Edit: 🙄
“As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket.”
When I don’t know what I’m talking about? They’re called fucking parentheses ya dunce. Look it up.
Literally Google it. The person even acknowledged that they meant to say parentheses.
The issue isn’t that they can be called parentheses, it’s that you said using the word brackets was wrong. Which it isn’t.
THE PERSON EVEN CORRECTED THEMSELF. brackets, just brackets, mean these [], apparently in non-us English ( ) can be called curved brackets. Go fucking ask somebody in a other threat what “brackets” are. Just brackets. I would bet you anything the majority of people will say []. Now I know that in other countries just “brackets” can mean parentheses. But parentheses is clearly more specific, more easily understood, and it’s what the op meant to say. As a matter of fact, go ask the fucking op if they meant brackets or parentheses.
Good grief.
Have a good one
How about this from Merriam-Webster. They use that in other countries right?
“a : one of a pair of marks [ ] used in writing and printing to enclose matter or in mathematics and logic as signs of aggregation”
This is the only relevant definition. So, people might call it that where you’re from, but its unspecific and parentheses is still a word there.
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