I've never heard the "split parenthesis" - perhaps Quebec is different. I have a Lisp teacher in Japan who has an interesting way of reading code. He says 'kak

I've never heard the "split parenthesis" - perhaps Quebec is different. I have a Lisp teacher in Japan who has an interesting way of reading code. He says 'kakko' for '(', which is the usual Japanese word for a parenthesis. For the closing one, he says the word in reverse: 'kokka'. So "(def a (fn))" would be read "kakko def a kakko fn kokka kokka". It's quite effective.