Talk:parenthesis

Latest comment: 9 years ago by Renard Migrant in topic Via Middle French

Via Middle French edit

This doesn't really make any sense since the English spelling is parenthesis and the Middle French spelling is parenthese. The -is ending can only come from parenthesis. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:48, 13 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Double and triple edit

Should we have double parenthesis/double parentheses and triple parenthesis/triple parentheses pages to define per Wikipedia:triple parentheses ?

Edit: I just realized I overlooked the existing page because I incorrectly pluralized it. So my question is narrowed to whether we should define "double"

https://mic.com/articles/144228/echoes-exposed-the-secret-symbol-neo-nazis-use-to-target-jews-online mentions:

In the early days of the social web, putting someone's name in multiple parentheses was meant to give that person a cute virtual hug.

In the example it actually uses a double rather than triple in Weisman's example:

"Hello ((Weisman))," it began

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/dblparens.html shows the double has some application in coding too.

I assume we would define these by the words rather than (()) or ((())) though they could make useful redirects?

Edit: I just noticed we have ((( )))...

Should we redirect the spaceless version to the spaced version? 16:21, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

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