This is false (but sometimes true [unless it isn’t– and that’s possible (sometimes)])
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.
I—like many people—also enjoy a good em dash.
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
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?”.
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 second to turn one run-on sentence into two. (But then again turning my comments into puzzles is fun).
I am always getting to the end of comments or really anything I write to someone (especially if more than a few sentences). Then get frustrated to see that I just ended up inserting basically a paragraph’s worth of shit inside one sentence. I have like a really hard time making simple and condensed information (or other times the complete opposite and say waaaay too little).
It is like a really strong need to try an provide all the information that could lead to being taken the wrong way. Or to convey that I considered obvious arguments to save people from bringing them up needlessly. And I think that using parenthesis looks less “bad” than the super long run-on sentences. I am the worst person in my friend-groups if someone wants a TL;DR of things fast.
Half the time I realize the parenthesis works better as a separate sentence, preceding the original sentence, because I’d gone “Thought (context).” instead of “Context; thought.”
But then I start writing “thought (context1; small tangent; context2 (sub-context)). Follow-up thought (…” and it’s a damn Chinese puzzle trying to put back flat and in the right-order.
That’s when someone just quotes one sentence out of context and I am heartbroken.
Scientist: Scientific findings are meaningless when taken out of context.
Journalist: Scientist says scientific findings are meaningless!
“I am heartbroken.”
Omg what happened, why are you heartbroken?
are you heartbroken?
Yeah, they just said they were!
Discovered the same thing about a year ago, it works amazingly well !
Of course, it often then becomes a comma splice; in that case, a period or semicolon works (but I use comma splices constantly anyway).
Puffed while reading your comment 😆
You’ll love German speakers then. In my experience they love bonus content thoughs as well as math equations in their thoughts like “=” for reframing a thought or “=>” for concluding a thought.
Not a German but I’m dutch so close I guess, and I pretty regularly use =/= and == in text. I picked up == from IT class, not sure about =/=
