tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004649849101357455.post8770745731135691837..comments2023-04-07T02:47:51.081-10:00Comments on Edit Hawai‘i: Parentheses ProblemPathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525687436544097069noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004649849101357455.post-55215687882472825852010-09-22T19:45:53.250-10:002010-09-22T19:45:53.250-10:00Samantha, re the Pamuk speech: the hyphens were in...Samantha, re the Pamuk speech: the hyphens were inserted by the author for pacing, and the parentheses to indicate a change in tone or pitch.<br /><br />The author may use parentheses in the same way he or she uses colons, semicolons, and so forth.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04525687436544097069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004649849101357455.post-65201201329313735472010-09-21T17:16:12.312-10:002010-09-21T17:16:12.312-10:00Is the use of parenthesis completely a matter of s...Is the use of parenthesis completely a matter of style then?<br /><br />I also became aware of the parenthesis problem when we read the transcript of the public lecture given by Orhan Pamuk, which consistently uses hyphens except halfway through the second paragraph at the bottom of the first page.Samanthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196345814480821318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004649849101357455.post-25996976133395814802010-09-20T17:13:59.314-10:002010-09-20T17:13:59.314-10:00In both cases, you have two independent clauses:
...In both cases, you have two independent clauses:<br /><br />1. Last year popular fiction accounted for half of all books purchased.<br />2. Business and self-help books were the second largest category.<br /><br />They can be combined in different ways, depending on the author's preference and the structure of his or her paragraph. For example, in the first version, the parentheses could have been left out entirely. In the second, "purchased" could have been followed by a semicolon, and the parentheses omitted.<br /><br />The variety of combinations doesn't mean that the definition of "complete" is "subjective." It simply means that the author has available to him or her different syntactical choices.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04525687436544097069noreply@blogger.com