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From: comm@zeus.bris.ac.uk ()
Subject: Re: Slashes and square brackets [was: Re: problems with pronunciation]
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Ross Smith (ross.smith@nz.eds.com) wrote:
: This thread seems to have drifted a bit. Did anyone ever explain what
: the difference between slashes and square brackets actually is? I've
: always wondered about that myself.

Really? You mean that you don't know the difference between a slash ( / )
and a square bracket (two kinds, open [ and close ] )? Really? What do you
call those three characters? As pure ASCII they should come across OK on
almost any news reader. As should the backslash ( \ ). All these must be
on every computer keyboard, so you must either have failed to see them or
used other names for them. What names, and why?

Martin Murray
 

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