From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:53:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008201553.55220.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100820090346.693f35c1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>
On Friday 20 August 2010 09:03:46 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Defined usage:
> () parentheses
> [] brackets
> {} braces
"Defined"? Defined where?
In English*, a parenthesis is a separate expression** marked off from the
rest of the sentence with brackets. Round ones, that is. A parenthesis
is not a punctuation mark, unless you want to be loose and informal
about it.
* This is what I learned at school, it accords with all my experience so
far except in American fora, and I see no need to change my
understanding.
** Thus becoming a "parenthetical expression".
I'll get off my soapbox now... :-)
--
Rgds
Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 20:21 [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-19 22:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-19 23:38 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-08-20 7:20 ` Dale
2010-08-20 8:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 8:39 ` Dale
2010-08-20 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 9:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-20 9:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 14:53 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2010-09-02 16:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 9:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-20 13:20 ` Bill Longman
2010-08-20 14:58 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-08-20 15:12 ` Bill Longman
2010-08-20 15:40 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-20 17:07 ` [WAY OT] Parenthese, was " Mike Edenfield
2010-08-20 19:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-20 19:32 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] Parenthese Alex Schuster
2010-08-20 20:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-21 9:53 ` Peter Humphrey
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