Category talk:Terms spelled with parentheses by language
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These categories are redundant. Any term that appears in one category is likely to appear in the other. The only terms that have either an opening or closing set of brackets but not both are: ))), :-(, :(, (:, ;(, :'-(, >:(, :'(, :-), :), ;), ;-), =), ):, 8-), B-), :o), B), O:-), >:) and 8). (Although, weirdly, ( and ) aren't categorized in the cats.) All of the terms categorized are emoticons, or are the characters themselves. As such, we should merge them into one cat. CitationsFreak (talk) 03:13, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Probably better to call them parentheses. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:31, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Yeah, that's a way better idea. That was my original plan, but I couldn't spell that word, and didn't feel like looking it up. CitationsFreak (talk) 04:01, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- LOL. I support parentheses. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 06:18, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- What about also merging Category:Terms spelled with left square bracket by language and Category:Terms spelled with right square bracket by language to Category:Terms spelled with square brackets by language? There are only two languages involved here (English and Translingual); the former has only one term, and the latter five. All terms involve both left and right brackets except for >:[, which is an emoticon. Benwing2 (talk) 23:45, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- Yeah, sure. Same thing applies. CitationsFreak (talk) 00:06, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Support. — excarnateSojourner (ta·co) 20:41, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- What about also merging Category:Terms spelled with left square bracket by language and Category:Terms spelled with right square bracket by language to Category:Terms spelled with square brackets by language? There are only two languages involved here (English and Translingual); the former has only one term, and the latter five. All terms involve both left and right brackets except for >:[, which is an emoticon. Benwing2 (talk) 23:45, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- LOL. I support parentheses. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 06:18, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Yeah, that's a way better idea. That was my original plan, but I couldn't spell that word, and didn't feel like looking it up. CitationsFreak (talk) 04:01, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Done. In the process I also unified left and right angle brackets and left and right braces (renaming "curly brackets" to "braces" as, per Wikipedia, "brace" is used in both American and British English but "curly bracket" mostly only in British English; not that it matters much as we have no such categories at the moment). Benwing2 (talk) 03:16, 7 February 2024 (UTC)