[what's up with this?]

[space-time]

[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?

[NewtonMP2100]

......can you fine them.....for the cold blooded murder......of the English tongue........??

[Sarcany]

They used OCR software to scan the description from a paper-insert and it used brackets to indicate bold-type.

[space-time]

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.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....[ I don't see......the problem...... ].....

[Racer X]

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.