You know you're going too far when you're using square brackets
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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."
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If you use too many parentheses you might have a lisp.
we should normalise nested parentheses
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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
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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
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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.
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Guilty, but now I'm considering switching to footnotes¹. They let you express a related thought without disrupting the flow².
¹I blame House of Leaves. Lotta footnotes in there, and they can go a long way before they really get out of hand.
² Sure there are cons, like the fact that the reader has to go to the bottom for context, but there's also no real length limit.
I love the way house of leaves does footnotes, it's basically an entire other book crammed into the same space. I still haven't finished it because I keep getting lost...
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Jokes on you I nest those things too (sometimes sentances need some extra extra (like this one))
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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?”.
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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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I love the way house of leaves does footnotes, it's basically an entire other book crammed into the same space. I still haven't finished it because I keep getting lost...
I'm stuck at chapter IX, where flipping forward a bit I know I'm going to have to dedicate a serious reading session to, and I just cannot find the time.
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but, parentheses always comes in pairs.
if not someone needs to be executed
Smileys? :)? Unpaired?
Unless you specifically meant the side thought use -
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ADHD life in a nutshell (because bonus thoughts are always worth it).
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…i apologise for the long letter; i didn’t have time to write a shorter one…
I love it.
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but, parentheses always comes in pairs.
if not someone needs to be executed
They sure do, unless you missed a parenthesis and somebody wants to point that out
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You can use em dashes instead, but then you risk being accused being an LLM.
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but, parentheses always comes in pairs.
if not someone needs to be executed
wrote last edited by [email protected]You might want to refer to the left parenthesis or the right parenthesis and then it would be incorrect to use the plural.
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You can use em dashes instead, but then you risk being accused being an LLM.
Why em dash when en dash is so accessible?
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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.
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we should normalise nested parentheses
I use them a lot
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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
