Random Grammar Peeve

[alixtii]

It's a common mistake that I'm sure I've made myself, but dangling parenthetheticals (or improperly nested parentheticals) really disrupt my reading process. I keep on waiting for the close parenthesis, and it never comes, and it's usually only a couple sentences further through the passage that I realize that the writer thinks they are writing non-parenthetically.

Now I'm off to finally see Superman Returns.

Comments

[wisdomeagle]

*guilts*

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Oh, I make the mistake too. I remember either you or Elizabeth pointing out to me that I was missing a close parenthesis, and my retort that the entire post was parenthetical and the subsequent parentheses were nested within.

It's just that I read words within parentheses in a different tone or something, not really taking a mental breath, and when that goes on for several sentences I get all disoriented.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

And just to make it clear this certainly wasn't in response to anything you've done lately, although I do vaguely remember you making the mistake before.