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    16 hours ago

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

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

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

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

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    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.

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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).

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      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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      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.

    • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
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      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.

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

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

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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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    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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    Since one email with {[()]} in it,I really force myself to cut back on that… Now it takes me three times as long to type a bloody answer to anything …

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    Primary thought (secondary supporting thought [tertiary supporting thought {fucking quaternary supporting thought, we have long since forgotten the primary thought}])

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      DAE start their parenthetical thought and end up writing full and multiple sentences inside it before returning to the original point?

      I try to catch myself and just make a new paragraph when that happens but I’m not always successful.

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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.

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        yes, but as far as I’m aware I don’t necessarily have ADHD? I do have autism, and there’s the suspicion I have ADHD, but I don’t have a paradoxical reaction to caffeine and also I’ve not been tested so who the fuck knows anything. My psychiatrist certainly doesn’t think testing is necessary.

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        All day, every day. Sometimes I will just delete everything and just not reply at all. Which sucks when I actually want to make use of comments and engage in the communities more. So far all the folks on here and the other instances I am on tend to not turn the focus onto my excessive use of parenthesis, and stay on the topic.

        I am sure there have been some random one-offs. The only ones I can think of have been more about how I didn’t break things into paragraphs vs just one huge wall. Even then, it is obvious that they at least read most of it. And I try to take those the same as telling me I have something on my face vs not. Just depends on how they say it.

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      Primary thought; secondary (interjectory thought [aside]) thought, supporting thought that wouldn’t work as an independent sentence, digression: the actual point.

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    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.

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      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 =/=