• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    I had not heard of this before. Usually those are used when adding text to a quote for clarification. Is this mainly a British English thing?

    • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social
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      23 hours ago

      It’s professional writing. It’s like when people complain how titles have capital letters in them, is just a form of writing.