You know you're going too far when you're using square brackets
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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
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Microsoft Word automatically converts a double dash to an em dash too
wrote last edited by [email protected]And Outlook. My quick sig is:
-- psud
But on Outlook it is
-- <ctrl-z>psud
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If I'd let my brain do its thing we'd be 3 levels of nesting deep on the regular.
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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.
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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
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Fuck me running (because I do that all the damn time)
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I can only find - on my phone keyboard
I get it when I long press -
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This is false (but sometimes true [unless it isn’t– and that’s possible (sometimes)])
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I get it when I long press -
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Ah yes. Thanks.
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ADHD person here. Been making an effort lately to use less parenthesis. A thing I quickly found is that many of them can be replaced with a comma just fine. Or, just like, taking the extra two seconds to turn one run-on sentence into two. (But then again turning my comments into puzzles is fun).
Texts can still be long-winded without parentheses. The trick is to consider which information the other person needs in this moment. It's definitely a skill worth developing.
That said, sometimes I still info dump just because I love it. And there are people who appreciate me for it, too.
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I find parenthesis are best when concept B is worth noting, but tangential to concept A, especially when the next few points are going to be back on the same track that A was on.
A pair of em dashes—which, admittedly, are a lot harder to use on a PC—serve the same function. I've seen some people in this thread say you'll get called an LLM for using them now, but I've never experienced that.
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Wait, that's an ADHD thing?
It is (always has been).
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Ah yes. Thanks.
No, that is morse code, try again.
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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 can use em dashes instead, but then you risk being accused being an LLM.
I—like many people—also enjoy a good em dash.
