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Maus_Sveti t1_j1jagyu wrote

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Because it’s annoying to “correct” people on their English when you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Edit: 🙄

“As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket

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dshmitty t1_j1jajre wrote

When I don’t know what I’m talking about? They’re called fucking parentheses ya dunce. Look it up.

Literally Google it. The person even acknowledged that they meant to say parentheses.

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Maus_Sveti t1_j1jb4hv wrote

The issue isn’t that they can be called parentheses, it’s that you said using the word brackets was wrong. Which it isn’t.

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dshmitty t1_j1jbewe wrote

THE PERSON EVEN CORRECTED THEMSELF. brackets, just brackets, mean these [], apparently in non-us English ( ) can be called curved brackets. Go fucking ask somebody in a other threat what “brackets” are. Just brackets. I would bet you anything the majority of people will say []. Now I know that in other countries just “brackets” can mean parentheses. But parentheses is clearly more specific, more easily understood, and it’s what the op meant to say. As a matter of fact, go ask the fucking op if they meant brackets or parentheses.

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dshmitty t1_j1jbzyz wrote

How about this from Merriam-Webster. They use that in other countries right?

“a : one of a pair of marks [ ] used in writing and printing to enclose matter or in mathematics and logic as signs of aggregation”

This is the only relevant definition. So, people might call it that where you’re from, but its unspecific and parentheses is still a word there.

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