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|    Roger House to All    |
|    A language/grammer question, I THINK    |
|    24 Nov 20 03:04:16    |
      From: 61rroger@gmail.com              My smartphone has a news feature. I was briefly looking at a news story from       Breitbart news about some stuff that Fox news host Laura Ingraham said on her       show. At one point, it says/shows, (for lack of a better way of saying it),       and this next little        bit is a direct quote from the news piece: "[U]nless the legal situation       changes in a dramatic and unlikely manner, Joe Biden will be inaugurated on       January 20." There more stuff before and after the part that I quoted, but my       question is only about        something in the quoted part. Here's my question. Why is the "U" in the word       unless in brackets and what is the point of putting it in the brackets? The       "U" is in brackets in the printed news piece, I didn't do it only by myself.        Thanks everyone in        advance!              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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