If the sentence is complete within the parentheses, it has a period within the parentheses. If it's a phrase that's part of the sentence, the period goes outside of the parentheses.
If you have any sentences in the parentheses, does everything in the parentheses have to be complete sentences, and therefore capitalised from the git go? Whereas if it's a sentence fragment (and all alone, like this), there is no capitalisation, and no final period or other terminal punctuation?
Also, calling them brackets is both easier to type and a cromulent alternative, fuck alla y'all.
Jesse, I totally called that one, for the record. It's
in my reblog.
Right there.
If the sentence is complete within the parentheses, it has a period within the parentheses.
You're right. I just think it starts to look cluttered and get confusing to read if you have too much in parentheses, or you use parentheses too much in one sentence or paragraph.
ita, like Steph said yesterday, brackets are different than parentheses. These are brackets: []
Jesse, I totally called that one, for the record. It's in my reblog. Right there.
Which I would know if I had noticed your reblog, but I couldn't because there are TOO MANY.
Everything doesn't have to be complete sentences, but it's really awkward to figure out how to punctuate it.
Whereas if it's a sentence fragment (and all alone, like this), there is no capitalisation, and no final period or other terminal punctuation?
Yes.
I suspect I'm considerably older than the author of that article, and everything he says is completely wrong, except maybe the part about gamers.
I am always bugged when someone nests brackets (because they have a thought within a thought {it just adds confusion [though it is nice that there are various bracket styles]}).
eta - then there is the danger that they don't match their brackets and cause havoc.
ita, like Steph said yesterday, brackets are different than parentheses. These are brackets: []
No, you are regional. Check wikipedia: [link] .
except maybe the part about gamers.
Yup, that's the part I recuse myself for too. I don't really think, until I was 15 or 16, pretty much, there were enough games to properly be a gamer without working so hard at it you
were
doing something asocial.
I couldn't because there are TOO MANY.
I don't think I've reblogged Supernatural since I got to work...not since the very start of the work day, anyway. I think I've got all the other topics in the world covered though, with extra carbs.
No, you are regional. Check wikipedia
I only know from U.S., lady, because that's where I am.
ita, like Steph said yesterday, brackets are different than parentheses. These are brackets: []
No, you are regional.
WE ARE NOT REGIONAL. WE ARE EVERYWHERE.
(I'm proofing something with long chemical names, which have italicized letters that seem random but I know aren't, and I just needed to bust in here with ASSCAPS so I could stop looking at the crazy chemical names for a minute.)
EVERYWHERE.
