This is false (but sometimes true [unless it isn’t– and that’s possible (sometimes)])
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Fuck me running (because I do that all the damn time)
There’s always an equivalent way using a more advanced sentence structure. Parentheses are just the lazy way / bad habit.
Example:
- I went to the store this afternoon (I was out of milk) and I ran into an old friend.
- I went to the store this afternoon because I was out of milk. There, I ran into an old friend.
If I'd let my brain do its thing we'd be 3 levels of nesting deep on the regular.
You can use em dashes instead, but then you risk being accused being an LLM.
Why em dash when en dash is so accessible?
Em dash is — I believe — the correct one for interjections / parentheses replacement. On mobile it's easily accessible, on my desktop I get it with Alt + - but I had to set it up myself.
I can only find - on my phone keyboard
I get it when I long press -
- –—
Ah yes. Thanks.
No, that is morse code, try again.
ADHD life in a nutshell (because bonus thoughts are always worth it).
Jokes on you I nest those things too (sometimes sentances need some extra extra (like this one))
My issue is that I really dislike nested brackets in text. They are fine in math but only with appropriate \left, \right, \bigl, \bigr, ...
You know i like to think I have it under control. No outbursts control over irritants etc and I think in doing pretty good. Then someone posts some shit like this and I'm all "get out of my head" . Nice to know I'm not the only one giving the brackets a work out.
Read this to my husband.
Him: "I never know where the punctuation goes, so I rewrite it so the () are in the middle of the sentence and I don't have to worry about it."
Me: "I do that too!"
Him: (because we've been together almost 30 years) "I don't think we've ever talked about this."
If you use too many parentheses you might have a lisp.
we should normalise nested parentheses
I use them a lot
It's more common than you might think
Adding and removing parenthetical clauses from my email until they all suddenly resolve, collapsing to nothing and I am left with an empty email. "Brilliant!" I think, and close Outlook, having solved my own problem.
Parenthesis is singular, parentheses is plural. One parenthesis, two parentheses. Like crisis/crises, axis/axes.
but, parentheses always comes in pairs.
if not someone needs to be executed
The op image incorrectly used the singular when they meant the plural
You might want to refer to the left parenthesis or the right parenthesis and then it would be incorrect to use the plural.
They sure do, unless you missed a parenthesis and somebody wants to point that out ;)
Smileys? :)? Unpaired?
Unless you specifically meant the side thought use
My mrs wires entirely in parentheses - it’s subclauses all the way down. She’s not ADHD though, likely OCD.
learn to appreciate nested parentheses.
because some ideas are fractals of thought
When she was finishing her thesis my number one line of advice was “could this subclause be a new sentence?”.
it's not her fault she thinks fractally rather than linearly.
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