Parentheses (continued)

[azurelunatic]

This is the sort of sentence that I was writing and parsing at fifteen. Sadly, the electronic versions of most of those exchanges have been lost.


I was especially, of course, thinking of the 7k 5-e-mails-a-day standard, with the nested parentheses (which were especially of use in my chosen career (computer science (after I stopped denying my love of the field))) which became increasingly more easy to decipher after I got the knack of it, which did not take long, as I'd already been exposed to the principle in math classes (although I abhorred those).

and

Half of my friends list would write about computer science (it being a chosen profession or an avid hobby), including the woman to whom I responded with that long sentence (as she was the one who introduced me to the nested parentheses (although it was her then-boyfriend (they parted company shortly after we met) who made me re-examine computer science as a vocation of choice); she recently got her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.

Comments

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

Better that, than the smut I wrote at 11.

[azurelunatic]

True. At 11, the thought that you could do more in bed with a partner than *sleep* had not yet really occurred to me.

I knew the general theory of sex, what went where, we had chickens, so I knew that it happened, I knew about reproduction, and I knew that I very much wanted to share my bed. I knew about masturbation, and was very much delighted with it, but somehow had yet to put the concept of pleasure together with partner.

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

I knew about sex from the age of about 9 and started wanting to have it at about 10. I didn't get to for quite a few years. But I wrote smut starting at 10-11, and it was VERY, VERY BAD.

[azurelunatic]

It might be akin to the Fanfic That Will Never Be Aired, a Star Wars/Star Trek crossover musical. I was thirteenish.

[thette.livejournal.com]

There's no words for the concept.

[azurelunatic]

The Enterprise (original) is exploring when they encounter the standard weird feature in space. Naturally, they are sucked in, and spit out unconscious on the other side.

Mr. Spock's number involves him singing his refusal to sing.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Now you're hurting my brain.

[juuro.livejournal.com]

That leaves me breathless. I simply cannot figure out how to place the breathings in this flow.

[azurelunatic]

It's text-only, and also, I breathe non-standardly.

Re: breathing

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Parentheses, both opening and closing, are frequently (and in this case, are) super commas. You can take a comma length breath or considering the separation of a parenthetical statement, you could even take a sentence breaking breath.

Re: breathing

[azurelunatic]

I am on crack tonight; I just tried to imagine SuperComma's costume.

Re: breathing

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

With a sidekick named Semi-Colon. Wants to be a full hero but something keeps holding him back.

Re: breathing

[juuro.livejournal.com]

I should imagine Semi-Colon to be even more anal-retentive than Colon.