1y ago

Bonus Thoughts

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I do this so much at work and have to constantly remind myself not to overdo it (otherwise people will think I’m crazy).
- I've learned to back off and realize that commas, instead of parentheses, often work just fine.
  
  But I've already used commas to add more information to the sentence, how can I fit in more information without parentheses?
  
  Stand over the person reading it and interject.
  
  Consider the humble “em dash” — some people use it to interject a completely different sentence in the middle of another — the next time you’re trying to avoid parentheses.
  
  Forget what everyone else said. Brackets.
  
  You can, although probably should not, use semicolons; they can be used to join related statements that could, very frequently, also stand on their own.
  
  Yea I try to do that too. And then make sure it doesn’t end up a ridiculous run on sentence. 😭
  
  Just introduce yourself to people as a 19th century German philosopher, they'll understand.
  
  Commas are a pathway to infinitely run-on sentences.
- Occasionally replace the parenthesis with a semicolon – or dashes – and you can get away with it more often.
  
  The thing is - and I say that from experience (being somewhat on the ADHD spectrum myself) - that there are no limits to how many of these you can use; or at least that's how it feels to me (sorry!).
  
  Beautiful sentence using all of them!
  
  I am guilty of overusing em dashes — I just think they're aesthetically pleasing, even if they're often unnecessary.
  
  i do this; i just have so much to say, and there are only so many conjugations and commas you can get away with -- without it becoming a run-on sentence (i may have a run-on mind).
  
  That's called ADHD, but I like the name, so we can use both I guess.
  
  Semicolon ftw
- im like small sentence (heres some back story though (and some deeper context thats needed (also something vaguely related to thing))).
- Usually by my third edit I’m ready to send. Of course, by then I’ve begun to question if anyone is interested in my option anyway and why am I sending this email? They probably know all this already and I’m too stupid to have realized it.

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