Timeline for What is an expression in parentheses in the middle of a phrase called?
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| Mar 4, 2012 at 8:27 | comment | added | Sergio Cinos | AFAIK, square brackets are commonly used by additions done by the editor into a transcripted text (in other words, they are not added by the original author but another person). The parantheses are used by additions done by the writter/speecher in his own text. | |
| Dec 16, 2011 at 13:04 | vote | accept | Jose Luis | ||
| Dec 16, 2011 at 13:03 | comment | added | Gonzalo Medina | @Joze: the quote I included answers your question: the RAE recommends the use of square brackets for any kind of addition or modification to the original text; in practice, however, parentheses are commonly used instead. | |
| Dec 16, 2011 at 12:47 | comment | added | Jose Luis | Thanks Gonzalo, but those are corchetes... on the article they are parentheses. Or is it a mistake of the article?? | |
| Dec 16, 2011 at 12:22 | comment | added | hippietrail | Yes I was going to comment that the same is done in English but I thought square brackets were usually used. | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 18:20 | history | answered | Gonzalo Medina | CC BY-SA 3.0 |