[blml] Réf. : played or not?

Alain Gottcheiner agot at ulb.ac.be
Wed Aug 8 14:08:54 CEST 2007


At 21:27 7/08/2007 +0100, Grattan Endicott wrote:

>+=+ Parenthesis expands, qualifies or explains. The basic law can be
>read omitting the parenthetical inlay.  This is not new, it is Kaplanesque.

It is more general : it is grammatical.
"Parentheses introduce a comment, an information, a reflexion, an 
explanation, necessary or not, to help understand the remainider of the text"
(translated from "proto typo", M. Bourdain / M. Burny)

- inference : it is not part of the main text.




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