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So, after this long wait between posts you'll no doubt be glad to hear that life with my wife(!) is all very happy and jolly. :-)
You'll hopefully have seen lots of the wedding photos and even some of the honeymoon already. If you haven't then take yourself on over to
wednesdayschild or save yourself the search and take a peek at Lucy's gorgeous dress!
I'm planning on keeping you all a little bit more up-to-date on my exciting life, or at least the pressing issues facing humanity nowadays. I start my new series of observations with what is possibly the most important issue you'll consider today; the issue of Square Brackets versus Round Brackets.
I've currently lost almost all interest in using Round Brackets, they are just 'not nice' [ugly] I'm afraid. If you still like them then please explain why. They are rubbish; first of all they're a strange shape and don't fit nicely around letters, and that's before I even get on to their usage. Let's consider what we use them for, basically to introduce asides and ignorable sentences and words. If you're busy reading something and you come across a round bracket, you might as well just skip over it. The writer has put it there to say "Please ignore me! This is some kind of airy-fairy, rambly, bambly, uselessness." At the other extreme is the nicely formed, easier to recognise, square bracket with its lovely clean edges and corners. Furthermore, it's there to tell you something informative. Yes, I know I'm about to get lots [well, from the two that have bothered to read this far] of messages telling me that they're meant to be used for purposes such as adding editors notes and the like, but they are so more versatile. When used in this 'usual' context they contain often critical information; they contain words that were omitted in speech or helpfully explain what on Earth "it" is. Therefore we [you] should use them, so much more, to be informative. You can't just skip past a square bracket it might [will] contain critically important information to help you understand what's being said. You'll also find their contents so often very helpfully concise. Which all adds to the overall beauty of the square bracket, you know what you're getting when you stop to peruse one. It'll be an eye-opening experience, the writer has carefully put it there to ensure that the text reads more clearly and that everything in it [the text] is clearly disambiguated. I know, I know, they're for editors; but I am editing! Just editing my own text to make it easier for you to read. I can happily write the words that I want to write without fear of leaving anything ambiguously floating, knowing that my handy square bracket is always there to fill you in on all the juicy gossip about my words that they themselves won't tell you.
Here ends today's fun-filled foray into a new angle on brackets [read: lesson]. ;-)
You'll hopefully have seen lots of the wedding photos and even some of the honeymoon already. If you haven't then take yourself on over to
wednesdayschild or save yourself the search and take a peek at Lucy's gorgeous dress!I'm planning on keeping you all a little bit more up-to-date on my exciting life, or at least the pressing issues facing humanity nowadays. I start my new series of observations with what is possibly the most important issue you'll consider today; the issue of Square Brackets versus Round Brackets.
I've currently lost almost all interest in using Round Brackets, they are just 'not nice' [ugly] I'm afraid. If you still like them then please explain why. They are rubbish; first of all they're a strange shape and don't fit nicely around letters, and that's before I even get on to their usage. Let's consider what we use them for, basically to introduce asides and ignorable sentences and words. If you're busy reading something and you come across a round bracket, you might as well just skip over it. The writer has put it there to say "Please ignore me! This is some kind of airy-fairy, rambly, bambly, uselessness." At the other extreme is the nicely formed, easier to recognise, square bracket with its lovely clean edges and corners. Furthermore, it's there to tell you something informative. Yes, I know I'm about to get lots [well, from the two that have bothered to read this far] of messages telling me that they're meant to be used for purposes such as adding editors notes and the like, but they are so more versatile. When used in this 'usual' context they contain often critical information; they contain words that were omitted in speech or helpfully explain what on Earth "it" is. Therefore we [you] should use them, so much more, to be informative. You can't just skip past a square bracket it might [will] contain critically important information to help you understand what's being said. You'll also find their contents so often very helpfully concise. Which all adds to the overall beauty of the square bracket, you know what you're getting when you stop to peruse one. It'll be an eye-opening experience, the writer has carefully put it there to ensure that the text reads more clearly and that everything in it [the text] is clearly disambiguated. I know, I know, they're for editors; but I am editing! Just editing my own text to make it easier for you to read. I can happily write the words that I want to write without fear of leaving anything ambiguously floating, knowing that my handy square bracket is always there to fill you in on all the juicy gossip about my words that they themselves won't tell you.
Here ends today's fun-filled foray into a new angle on brackets [read: lesson]. ;-)
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