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Probably become=>becoming whould help
by szundi 2y ago
Probably become=>becoming whould help
- thundergolfer 2y ago"Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Becoming Successful" isn't correct either.
- blakehawkins 2y agoPeople write like they read and speak, which is where this mistake comes from The right way is to replace the parentheses with a pair of dashes, one before and one after the deemphasized clause
- lisper 2y agoOr just remove the parens. They don't really add (much of) anything. (See what I did there?) Or maybe: "... trying (unsuccessfully) to succeed..."
- ChaseRensberger 2y agoI think these are all really good points. I certainly need to improve at my article writing abilities. I have removed the parentheses from the title.
- ghaff 2y agoProbably em-dash in a formatted document rather than pair of hyphens like I'd use here. I'm pretty sure there are some stylistic recommendations about parens vs. em-dashes. I probably used to overuse parens but, in spite of being on my company's style committee for almost 15 years, I'm not sure I was ever all that consistent and I'm not sure we had hard and fast rules.
- namanyayg 2y agoOP has been "trying" for 1 year, not "becoming" for one year.