Grammar pedants - help please.
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Feb 2021
11:58pm, 27 Feb 2021
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RichHL
Off.
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Feb 2021
7:59am, 28 Feb 2021
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Cerrertonia
I usually write things, and then rewrite at the end to remove all of the brackets and hyphens that I will have naturally included every sentence or two. The copy editor on my last book had views on such things. I remember her asking about Half-, Single- and Double-Precision Floating-Point Numbers which would be represented in 16-, 32- and 64-bits. |
Feb 2021
9:56am, 28 Feb 2021
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Northern Exile
Same. I use brackets way too often and once I've churned something out, I go back and remove the brackets wherever possible.
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Feb 2021
9:58am, 28 Feb 2021
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JCB
I must admit to using brackets (on occasion and much too often). Just seems more logical to my mathematical brain.
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Feb 2021
10:19am, 28 Feb 2021
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swittle
A wise person once advised me that content within brackets could happily be passed over. 
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Feb 2021
10:22am, 28 Feb 2021
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JCB
Exactly the reason for me writing them (largely).
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Feb 2021
10:23am, 28 Feb 2021
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swittle
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Feb 2021
11:18am, 28 Feb 2021
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Dvorak
An earlier poster (previous page) once chided me, in a blog-comment, for using (far) too many brackets. Which is (perhaps) surprising, as another (resting) Fetchies once told me I used as many brackets (bracket- and sub-clause-happy, perhaps) as a German (and she would know).
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Feb 2021
11:29am, 28 Feb 2021
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JK *chameleon*
I use brackets in work emails a lot, but often they are used as an closer explanation of a decision I've come to - so can be passed over if they don't want to see my workings out. Given the responses to my emails, I don't believe many people even read past the first bullet point, so it's probably all wasted effort anyway! |
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Feb 2021
11:34am, 28 Feb 2021
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swittle
JK - your first sentence sums up how I deal with text in brackets.
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