Timeline for Why were square brackets used to contain these words?
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| S Oct 26, 2016 at 4:59 | history | edited | Tonepoet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Edited the title for grammar and provided more appropriate tags
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| S Oct 26, 2016 at 4:59 | history | suggested | Mick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Edited the title for grammar and provided more appropriate tags
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| Oct 26, 2016 at 4:53 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 26, 2016 at 4:50 | answer | added | Mick | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 4:46 | comment | added | Jim | Because ordinarily the author would just refer to them as Broad and Stokes but he realizes that not all his readers will know who he's talking about so he's added more details in square brackets. As in, "Broad (and by Broad I mean Stuart Broad)" etc. At the same time he wishes people to know that they should recognize them by the single name and therefore doesn't simply write the full name without brackets. | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 4:39 | history | asked | dz420 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |