• AnimalsDream
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    2 days ago

    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).

    • @[email protected]
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      124 hours ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 days ago

      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?
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      62 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 days ago

        Scientist: Scientific findings are meaningless when taken out of context.

        Journalist: Scientist says scientific findings are meaningless!

      • AnimalsDream
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        102 days ago

        “I am heartbroken.”

        Omg what happened, why are you heartbroken?

    • Owl
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      42 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        52 days ago

        Of course, it often then becomes a comma splice; in that case, a period or semicolon works (but I use comma splices constantly anyway).

        • Owl
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          32 days ago

          Puffed while reading your comment 😆