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unrelated but I've never understood how to put a smiley at the end of parenthetical sentences (which comes up surprisingly often for me since I use smileys a lo
by mghackerlady 8mo ago
unrelated but I've never understood how to put a smiley at the end of parenthetical sentences (which comes up surprisingly often for me since I use smileys a lot and also like using parentheses). Just the smiley as an end parentheses (like this :) feels off but adding another parentheses (like this :) ) makes it look like it should be nested which causes problems since I also tend to nest parenthetical sentences (like (this)).
Yes I enjoy lisp, how could you tell
- tuckerman 8mo agoPost C++11 you can just do (like this:)), no extra space needed before the last parenthesis.
- mghackerlady 8mo agoBut then it looks like I'm using a double smiley[0] which I do actually use on occasion [0] :))
- jasomill 8mo agoYou could use a bracket in the smiley (like this :]) as is sometimes used when nesting parentheticals.
- mghackerlady 8mo agoI sometimes do the opposite and use brackets for the parentheticals [like this :)]
- kruffalon 8mo agoI tend to rephrase myself so I dont end a statement inside a parenthesis with a smiley. It's one of those things I think are worth putting some extra effort into, I'm glad to see at least one other person giving it some thought. Thx <3
- rpastuszak 8mo agoYour comment made me realise that there's logic to this (like this :), since in HTML we can: <li> do this <li> and this instead of: <li> ... </li> and <img alt='this'> instead of <img ... /> You might like Lisp, but what you're saying reminds me of the late 00s/early 2010s xHTML2 vs. HTML5 debate :)
- mghackerlady 8mo agoI'm an avid defender of xHTML. You can pry it from my cold dead hands
- abustamam 8mo agoThanks, I hate it :)
- qingcharles 8mo agoYou monster.
- giancarlostoro 8mo agoI have the same problem. I just ditch the smiley face. :)
- mghackerlady 8mo agonever >:(
- giancarlostoro 8mo agoAre you quoting someone doing a sad face or are you angry? ;)
- sevensor 8mo agoThe answer is obviously to balance your smiley faces and wrap the entire statement in the smiley face sentiment. ((: Like this :))
- mghackerlady 8mo agoI like this simply for the absurdity of it, but will only use it when the entire parenthetical is modified by the smiley instead of a single word or phrase (:since I really like it:) but (it looks ugly, no hard feelings :) )
- mrexroad 8mo agoThat’s quite the Scheme…
- normie3000 8mo agoAh, Spanish notation.
- just6979 8mo agoYou have to invert the front one! (⸵ Of course, only noticable if it's a winky ;) Turned Semicolon (U+2E35 ⸵)
- tuetuopay 8mo agoUse dashes and the problem goes away! Well, you gain the LLM witch-hunt, but heh, no free lunch.
- MarsIronPI 8mo agoThe relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/541 https://xkcd.com/541
- lesostep 8mo agoallow me to introduce my friend – turned smiley here he is: ´◡` (quite useful for brackets ´◡`) you can find him on windows by pressing Win + ; not as fast as typing, but quite faster then typing and then wondering if thats too much brackets or too little
- mghackerlady 8mo agoI love kaomoji so I use this on occasion but nothing can match the subtle passive aggressiveness and level of expression unmatched by anything else :)
- vonunov 8mo agoYou're really on to something there (-:
- stiglitz 8mo agoI’ve always been bothered by instances of your first example, and I mostly use “XD” instead of “:)” to sidestep the issue in my own writing.
- 0x38B 8mo agoSynthetic example: "Вот его, нет, не допустили (сама знаешь, почему)))" My translation: "But him - no, they didn't let him in (of course you know why :)" When I went from texting friends in Russian or Ukrainian back to English, I missed right parentheses as a smiley; one or two - hi), hello)) - to me are like a smile, by ))) and )))) there's some laughing or some other joke going on. Native speakers could weigh in; my native tongue is English.