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The History of the Bracket- a million chevrons died for this
Seph
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The angle bracket was the earliest type to appear in English. Desiderius Erasmus coined the term lunula to refer to the rounded parentheses (), recalling the round shape of the moon.
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In comic books, angle brackets are often used to mark dialogue that has notionally been translated from another language.
Discuss your love of brackets
Curly brackets (so-called in British English; North American English prefers braces) are sometimes used in prose to indicate a series of equal choices: "Select your animal {goat, sheep, cow, horse} and follow me".
[]
()
<>
{}
In comic books, angle brackets are often used to mark dialogue that has notionally been translated from another language.
Discuss your love of brackets
Curly brackets (so-called in British English; North American English prefers braces) are sometimes used in prose to indicate a series of equal choices: "Select your animal {goat, sheep, cow, horse} and follow me".
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Lock one immediately.
oh goodness gracious
hold on i have a solution
this is about education and wholesomeness
and brackets
Prune button
if you push it now it brings up a page that plays a .wav file of Tube screaming profanity and tempbans you for 2 days
[that's pretty awesome]
If that's what the prune button does, [then what does the merge button do?]
Probably something fatal.
i love them they let you know when it's time to go TURBOOOO
pretty rad, actually!
make his middle name awesome
turbo awesome
He will be guaranteed a spot in American Gladiators 2012
Also the backslashes and semicolons.
Goddamn you, LaTeX!
I respect the brackets (as a developer I kind of have to) but the Irony Point is where it is at. I mean come on, a backwards question mark? That is like the symbol for my entire life..... I am so confused.
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*edit because mah speeleng es gued
Iorny
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ahah she won't be able to walk straight tomorrow
That is hot. I think I got punctuation all over my pants now.
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