[ SECRET POST #2216 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2216 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[kaijinscendre]

That works in a the style of a play or script, but not in a novel format when there would not be an aside (especially in a normal conversation).

[(Anonymous)]

Um. I make conversational asides all the time. And see them. Your tone changes and your expression goes sideways or absent, and you say something tangential to the conversation?

In a play or script format, an aside is noted in the script, you don't need to indicate it in the dialogue itself, so paranetheses would be less appropriate, I would have thought?

[kamino_neko]

Yay, someone else who sees it!

[(Anonymous)]

Really? Like...what do people think when you do that? You just go, "Man did you see the football game? The players *adopts tone change*(and some of the coaches) were doing so well." Do you whisper or...?

[(Anonymous)]

Uh. 'Adopt', as in deliberately, isn't really right. My tone changes automatically. You've never been talking to someone and they semi-randomly interject a tangential observation into a sentance? I think when I do it, because it's usually a semi-connected thought randomly popping up, I tend to frown a bit as well, and then clear again for the rest of the sentance. My family members who do it tend to frown with them as well.

Um. This isn't familiar?

[(Anonymous)]

I think that is more of a , , than a ( )

[(Anonymous)]

You can't even spell "sentence." Why should you be taken seriously?

[(Anonymous)]

Meh. There are a few words, 'sentence' among them, that I habitually misspell for some reason. That's what spellcheck is for, when I'm writing something longer and less casual than an anonymous internet comment.

[(Anonymous)]

yes it's familiar but you either write it between commas or dashes. Parentheses have no business in dialogue.

[(Anonymous)]

Tell that to Jane Austen

[tabaqui]

I do this occasionally, too, but it really only works with people who i know and who know me. I think random strangers would think i'm a little off.

[(Anonymous)]

I ... had not realised it was strange, actually. Though, yes, it tends to be family and people I know that see it most often. But I sort of thought it was a common thing?

[tabaqui]

I don't think so. Honestly, without coming off as a snob, a lot of people that i know just casually would be confused as all get out, so keeping it with family/close friends is just easier, or i'd have to stop and explain myself all the time.