Is this one a common trait? I love writing, but I have to constantly rewrite because every sentence uses parenthetical tangents.
I do it quite often here and I think of them as footnotes to my writing, because they are tangential thoughts, but still important to what I’m trying to express that it shouldn’t be considered a bonus: the asides are more like a public “note to self”.
It also makes the writing feel more raw and stream of conscience-y. (I don’t have a better word to describe it.)
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For work email, I suggest writing it as simply and direct as possible while still being polite. People really don’t like reading essays for work emails.
Yes! I have learnt to not be ashamed of those, at least in anonymous communities
This is just called bad grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
The ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) urge to use parentheses in every sentence as every thought comes with additional bonus content.
Ftfy.
That comma after spelling is even worse when talking about grammar
To piggyback on this—if it’s an important bit of information, include it sans parentheses. If it isn’t important, get rid of it.
…and no, not every thing that comes to mind is important or relevant.
Heresy!
…and no, not every thing that comes to mind is important or relevant.
This statement let out 1000 tiny screams in my brain the moment my eyes stopped reading it.
Blasphemy of blasphemies! 😭
To you
Neither might it be important to your audience. Communication isn’t usually about communicating what’s important to the speaker but what’s important to the listener.
And I say this as someone who constantly has to do summaries at the end of even my shorter sentences because I end up overexplaining things.
Cool, than stop gossiping about Linda in accounting. Because that really isn’t important or relevant either, but one of them is frowned upon and the other isn’t……
They said, whilst using and Oxford comma in a list without sublists🤪.
I do this so much at work and have to constantly remind myself not to overdo it (otherwise people will think I’m crazy).
Occasionally replace the parenthesis with a semicolon – or dashes – and you can get away with it more often.
I am guilty of overusing em dashes — I just think they’re aesthetically pleasing, even if they’re often unnecessary.
i do this; i just have so much to say, and there are only so many conjugations and commas you can get away with – without it becoming a run-on sentence (i may have a run-on mind).
That’s called ADHD, but I like the name, so we can use both I guess.
Semicolon ftw
The thing is - and I say that from experience (being somewhat on the ADHD spectrum myself) - that there are no limits to how many of these you can use; or at least that’s how it feels to me (sorry!).
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Beautiful sentence using all of them!
im like small sentence (heres some back story though (and some deeper context thats needed (also something vaguely related to thing))).
Usually by my third edit I’m ready to send. Of course, by then I’ve begun to question if anyone is interested in my option anyway and why am I sending this email? They probably know all this already and I’m too stupid to have realized it.
I’ve learned to back off and realize that commas, instead of parentheses, often work just fine.
Commas are a pathway to infinitely run-on sentences.
But I’ve already used commas to add more information to the sentence, how can I fit in more information without parentheses?
Consider the humble “em dash” — some people use it to interject a completely different sentence in the middle of another — the next time you’re trying to avoid parentheses.
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Stand over the person reading it and interject.
You can, although probably should not, use semicolons; they can be used to join related statements that could, very frequently, also stand on their own.
Yea I try to do that too. And then make sure it doesn’t end up a ridiculous run on sentence. 😭
Just introduce yourself to people as a 19th century German philosopher, they’ll understand.
Yyyyyup
nah this isn’t an ADHD thing
is it? I mean everyone has bonus thoughts right? or explanation of apparent non sequitur? my coworkers don’t really do it and I never really think about it.
I mean yeah, I have ADHD, but this is a new “symptom” to me (and is there an actual downside?)
Hey look, it’s me
I’m in this post (and I don’t like it, but I do appreciate it for what it is)
oh god I do this all the time, excessively, and have to rewrite emails and posts multiple times to get rid of them as much as possible. sometimes I’ll be writing a parenthetical and need to nest others within it…
It’s hard.
As long as you escape the inner parentheticals there is no problem (escape as in adding "" to it \(just as in programming \\\(because we do this as much as you do \\\\\\(in many languages\\\\\\).\\\)\)).
“Nested Parentheticals” can totally be the title of my 15,000 word autobiography. lol
{Nested [Parentheticals] - (An Autobiography), By Admiral Patrick}
I fight this urge frequently.
Don’t forget braces {} if you have an especially rambling sub thought.
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My luck I’d delete what I wrote to rewrite it and forget something.
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It’s all I can do not to nest them 🙃
I’ve started re-writing nearly all of the emails I send with a rule of like, no more than one set of parenthesis. Somewhat funny because I do some programming and I started thinking to myself “if I’m nesting parens I should probably just re-write this
functionsentence.”Do you speak with a Lisp?
I do this in almost everything I write out (almost, somethings don’t need clarification).
I see what you did here (by highlighting the point you were making by doing it on the comment taking about it).
So bonus thoughts aren’t “normal”?
Everyone goes pee, but if you’re doing it 60 times a day you may have an issue.
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Alternatively, if you really want to have some fun, and I’m not saying you don’t, you could instead, if you were so inclined, just use commas to separate, but not entirely exclude, nonrestrictive clauses.
Or—hear me out here—we use the em dash.
All of it, yes
Fuck (Well happens to me (sometimes even nested))
Linus Torvalds used nested parentheses in his famous Linux announcement email (1991-08-25) so I think precedent says they’re OK.
Nested parenthesis is fairly common in most programming languages.
Last time I checked, we were talking about English, not Lisp.
Most programming languages are written in English, yes.
Most programming language don’t care if it’s written in English
What is cout in Spanish
mecouta
I count in ich_iel
SPRICH
marafuera ?
I’ve met people who’s second language is English with their first being C and assembly
