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• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People try and use commas for this sort of clarification and are eviscerate for it.

  With these sort of math problems, the rules are taught early and then all subsequent math is written in an unambiguous form.

  Language has the oddity of going the other way around where the rules get more complex as a display for advanced skilled.

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    eviscerated
    God, can you even spell???
    Get your act together.

    /s

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• Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My language teachers always told me it was bad form to use too much or even to nest parenthesis…

  Then I found lisp…

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lost In Stupid Parenthesis.

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• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We have them in written language, though?

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• gamer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is why grammar is important, and “grammar nazis” are the only good kind of nazis.

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• AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t that basically what commas are for?

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• KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why (I don’t see) not

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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lojban.org/…/section-parentheses.html

  Also xkcd.com/191/. Also vlasisku.lojban.org/xekce. Also www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv0QIbGc8i8.

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