any space for {}? Or curly-brackets?
On 11/10/06, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Joanna said:
>
> >> Parentheses is just a clever way of referring to brackets of either
> >> description, and indicates no particular distinction between them. At
> >> least, so I've always believed. I'm sure the Rodent will pitch in here
> >> and correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> ... to which Mark replied:
>
> > I can sense his whiskers twitching.
>
> Oh, well.
>
> I misread Joanna's original post and thought it referred to []'s. I think
> in the UK, both those and ()'s would be called parentheses (as Joanna
> suggests), but I haven't looked this up. Both are orthographic ways of
> indicating a paranthetical clause. Or something.
>
> But a question is how do you -- not necessarily pronounce them but signal
> their presence -- when reading a poem? Not difficult, with intonation, etc.
>
> More interesting is whether it is/would be possible to signal the difference
> between square parentheses, rounded parentheses and Emily Dickinson's
> dashes. I'd guess they would tend to all come out the same way.
>
> But ... I can envision poems which would exploit the difference between
> square and rounded parantheses. Except the difference would exist in the
> written but not the spoken manifestation of the poem.
>
> Which brings us of course to Concrete Poetry (specifically the sub-variety
> Typewriter Poetry). I'd see this as the place where ( ... ) and [ ... ]
> would be used, rather than among Mark's post-modernists.
>
> (Concrete Poets do it in fonts.)
>
> And then there's the question of how to pronounce the indentation in a
> non-traditional unrhymed stanza.
>
> As Ezra Pound didn't say:
>
> Spring [...]
> So long,
> Gongora [... !
>
> A Bewildered WereMouse
>
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