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In all fairness, I think doubling up on the parenthesis is just a no-brainer. I mean, let's examine the syntax and break down what we have to deal with: 1) We
by invisible 16y ago
In all fairness, I think doubling up on the parenthesis is just a no-brainer. I mean, let's examine the syntax and break down what we have to deal with:
1) We are executing an optional piece of text in a sentence such that we'd like it to be read but not spoken aloud.
2) Often, these parenthetical statements are in themselves sentences that just lack a piece of a full sentence, but can sometimes act as sentences in themselves.
3) We want to express ourselves using an emoticon strictly concerning this additional piece of information that is within the parenthesis.
4) Sometimes, parenthetical statements can contain an entire sentence. (For example, this is one of those sentences :).) If we were to transform that into an optional piece of a sentence, we would get something that drops the "for example" and also drops the period which leaves us with two closing parenthesis.
I hope that we can quickly adopt this new formatting and stick to it asap.
- JacobAldridge 16y agoI now concur (at last, ;-)!)