just like all those other parentheticals

[cimorene]

Dear Badfic Writers,

Brackets ({}) and square brackets ([]) have their own purposes. They are not just a pair of parentheses dressed up in their own very special and unique snowflake outfits for when you are writing a story and it doesn't seem special enough with plain punctuation.

Thanks for your attention to this matter,
cim

Comments

[revulo.livejournal.com]

What IS the purpose of brackets? I've only seen them in mathematics that I can remember...

*admits to using square brackets for her script form RPing out of habit, despite knowing it's more than likely grammatically incorrect*

[pixxers.livejournal.com]

Ehehe.

[schonste.livejournal.com]

I hate seeing them used as parentheses -- since you are reigning champ of knowing this stuff, would there actually be any reason to use {} and [] in a fanfic?

I've seen <>, but that's telepathy and that was spawned from published books. Admittedly, the Animorphs series, but THEY WERE PUBLISHED.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

this entry caused me to look up brackets on wikipedia. there is an entry! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackets#Types_of_brackets) oh wikipedia. you are flawed, and yet, so excellent. ♥

[norah.livejournal.com]

O.O NFW.

[geeklite.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I have enough bracket issues from coding ;)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

So people think [] and {} are, like, custom skins for parentheses?

You know, in my day, we just changed the font color.