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[–] jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If you use too many parentheses you might have a lisp.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

we should normalise nested parentheses

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago

I use them a lot

[–] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

It's more common than you might think

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

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).

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's when someone just quotes one sentence out of context and I am heartbroken.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"I am heartbroken."

Omg what happened, why are you heartbroken?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

are you heartbroken?

Yeah, they just said they were!

Scientist: Scientific findings are meaningless when taken out of context.

Journalist: Scientist says scientific findings are meaningless!

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Discovered the same thing about a year ago, it works amazingly well !

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Of course, it often then becomes a comma splice; in that case, a period or semicolon works (but I use comma splices constantly anyway).

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Puffed while reading your comment 😆

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 13 points 6 days ago

If I'd let my brain do its thing we'd be 3 levels of nesting deep on the regular.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You can use em dashes instead, but then you risk being accused being an LLM.

[–] SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago

I—like many people—also enjoy a good em dash.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why em dash when en dash is so accessible?

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can only find - on my phone keyboard

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I get it when I long press -

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

No, that is morse code, try again.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Jokes on you I nest those things too (sometimes sentances need some extra extra (like this one))

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

My issue is that I really dislike nested brackets in text. They are fine in math but only with appropriate \left, \right, \bigl, \bigr, ...

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

Fuck me running (because I do that all the damn time)

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Parenthesis is singular, parentheses is plural. One parenthesis, two parentheses. Like crisis/crises, axis/axes.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

but, parentheses always comes in pairs.

if not someone needs to be executed

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 days ago

They sure do, unless you missed a parenthesis and somebody wants to point that out ;)

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago

The op image incorrectly used the singular when they meant the plural

[–] Raptorox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Smileys? :)? Unpaired?
Unless you specifically meant the side thought use

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

ADHD life in a nutshell (because bonus thoughts are always worth it).

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

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 =/=

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

This is false (but sometimes true [unless it isn’t– and that’s possible (sometimes)])

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

My mrs wires entirely in parentheses - it’s subclauses all the way down. She’s not ADHD though, likely OCD.

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[–] ericatty@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago

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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