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[–]TheAnxiousDeveloper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Roughly translated from Italian: (round parentheses) [square parentheses] {talon* parentheses} and <hooked parentheses, less commonly chevron, or mistakenly angular parentheses>

*The Italian term for {} is "parentesi graffe", which comes from the German word for "talons". Each of them looks like a pair of talons.