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A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months (www.engadget.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (7 children)

on that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

Then I found lisp...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Lost In Stupid Parenthesis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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 skills.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

eviscerated

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

/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

We have them in written language, though?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Isn't that basically what commas are for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Why (I don't see) not