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yincrash
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The Unpaid Bill that Launched a Thousand Starships
His friend sent him a text that said "[laughs]"?? that seems improbable
sp332
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Square brackets indicate that an editor has modified a quote.
http://askville.amazon.com/purpose-square-brackets-sentence/...
sukuriant
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Different people use different characters for actions. Asterisk, colon, dash, angle-bracket, bracket are all common enough to be heard about.
It could have equally been
"xD"
"lol"
And I would consider those among many others to be laughter.
lnanek2
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since it is in square brackets, it is pretty clear the journalist translated an emoticon or acronym.
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