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[what's up with this?] - space-time - 02-01-2020
[why do some Amazon sellers use square brackets like these at the beginning of each line?]
I suspect most of these are listings by Chinese companies/vendors, but I do not understand where these square brackets come from. Is this somehow a Chinese tradition to emphasize some words, like we would normally underline or use BOLD in English?
Re: [what's up with this?] - NewtonMP2100 - 02-01-2020
......can you fine them.....for the cold blooded murder......of the English tongue........??
Re: [what's up with this?] - Sarcany - 02-01-2020
They used OCR software to scan the description from a paper-insert and it used brackets to indicate bold-type.
Re: [what's up with this?] - space-time - 02-01-2020
Sarcany wrote:
They used OCR software to scan the description from a paper-insert and it used brackets to indicate bold-type.
Wow, they don't even bother to clean up their own text. Thanks for the explanation.
Re: [what's up with this?] - NewtonMP2100 - 02-01-2020
.....[ I don't see......the problem...... ].....
Re: [what's up with this?] - Racer X - 02-03-2020
space-time wrote:
[quote=Sarcany]
They used OCR software to scan the description from a paper-insert and it used brackets to indicate bold-type.
Wow, they don't even bother to clean up their own text. Thanks for the explanation.
That would assume they are English language users, which they likely aren't.