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There has been many times where I've seen writers use only one parenthesis, generally at the beginning of whatever they are saying, i.e. an open parenthesis, but not at the end. What is the context for using parentheses like this?
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It's a literary device used with the intention to trigger my autism
Sounds like it could be used in stream of consciousness stuff
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What the hell kind of stuff are you reading where you see this so often?
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>>7677979
I see it in a lot of literary journals, works of philosophy, etc. Not really so much in fiction.
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it really pisses off the programmers.
do while !joking { i troll u );
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>>7678002
It's probably a mistake
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>>7678002
Are you sure you aren't missing the closing bracket? In philosophy is possible it closed in another paragraph. Especially in Kant/Hegel/heidegger or similarly dense reading.
I read lots of Phil and have never seen this. Would welcome a real example.
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>>7678318
Sorry, I just thought of something, a dash can be considered a parenthesis and does not need to be closed. Are you reading some kind of translation? Maybe the translator took a weird style choice and changed dashes to brackets (unlikely.
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>>7678002
never seen one in philosophy. Are you sure are not exaggerating?
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