… , because it feels like sentiment clarification must be included and tone tags and emoji can’t cover all possible ways a reader might find to still misinterpret a statement. (or the statement carries a hidden meaning that I never realize existed, or I have made a fool of myself for accidentally quoting something someone has said in a completely unrelated situation and somehow I still think providing more context would fix that)

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    1 year ago

    How many nested layers of parentheses and separators can we get to?

    When I do a re-read (or a re-re-read, because communicating precisely to larger groups takes more preparation) I try to split convoluted braindumps with too many complications into separate sentences or even paragraphs. When I don’t… it’s sometimes a wild ride to reconstruct the brain tangents that led to the written sentence.

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      1 year ago

      We can always go full David Foster Wallace and start burying side clauses in footnotes, too!