[email protected] wrote: > The problem with extending the use of square brackets to cover sarcasm, > tongue-in-cheek and incredulity is that square brackets traditionally mean > "this > context is being added and was not previously present in the quoted text". > I.E. The Prime Minister stated, "Yesterday Mrs [George] Jones went to > Hampshire." The editor of the top-most source is inserting "George" not to > convey > emotional meaning, but merely to convey contextual meaning within a quoted > phrase. > > Also, I believe the use of quotes to cover the cases I mentioned is already > present in materials. > > > I agree. Any non-standard use of punctuation will inevitably create confusion.
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