Richard Borthwick's comments
about the use of brackets in ES
(=Europaische Stammtafeln).

Yes, please help yourself. Thanks for asking.
At 07:31 PM 8/11/97 CET, you wrote:
>On 1997/02/04, you, (Richard Borthwick, rgbor@cyllene.uwa.edu.au) said:
>>I have taken the double date to mean that the one outside the brackets
>>is what ES thinks is the best attested or correct date and the one
>>in brackets has some attestation in the sources. The issue is a bit
>>confusing because the "normal" use of brackets in ES indicates
>>a "more-likely-than-not" probability that that a name,
>>date or relationship is the case, though sometimes the context seems
>>to suggest that the brackets are expressing a degree of doubt - a sort
>>of "?". If I am correct, the brackets in the double date case indicate
>>a strong degree of negative probability for the bracketed date relative
>>to the unbracketed one.
>>
> Dear Mr.Richard Borthwick!, can I use your letter in my new WWW page:
>
> ES-SENCE - Kaj Malachowski's guide to ES (=Europaische Stammtafeln),
> http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Plains/2739/es-sence.html ,
>
> do you have any other comments to contribute to ES-SENCE?, regards! -
>
>Kaj Malachowski - malachowski@bigfoot.com - tel.(48-22) 641 24 11;
>Miklaszewskiego 14/13, 02-776 Warszawa, POLSKA, (=Warsaw, POLAND);
>
>

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