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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Jan 1998.
Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:27:46 +0000, Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine
<Dev...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:


> BTW, if you get involved with real pedants the round
> things are called "(parentheses)" left and right,
> and all usages for remarks in parenthesis or for numbering
> should be made with them.  The square things are called 
> "[brackets]" or braces, and these are "{curly brackets}".

Real pedants or Americans of no particularly pedantry at all.

--
Truly Donovan
reply to truly at lunemere dot com

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From: tru...@ibm.net (Truly Donovan)
Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
Date: 1998/01/12
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