Sunday, December 11, 2011

Update!

Recently I:

saw an awesome lunar eclipse
wrote a lot of lesson plans
got food poisoning (for the fourth time since coming here)
ate lots of delicious Chinese barbecue (not related to above)
made a student cry (and I'm not very sorry about it)
found out that that picture of me is on renren (the Chinese version of fbook)
used a lot of parentheses in a blog post (because they're awesome)
and have been too busy to write blogs about what's been going on and ones answering people's questions

3 comments:

  1. Nice work with the parentheses. They can be very effective (when used sparingly). But I am never (well almost never) sure I am using them properly. But the danger (and I mean this seriously) is if you use them too much (more than once in a sentence may be just that), the whole sentence can get too long and hard to follow. :)

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  2. Quote from wikipedia on parentheses:

    Parentheses may also be nested (generally with one set (such as this) inside another set). This is not commonly used in formal writing (though sometimes other brackets [especially square brackets] will be used for one or more inner set of parentheses [in other words, secondary {or even tertiary} phrases can be found within the main parenthetical sentence])

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  3. I am left speechless. I think both of you have used your allotment of parentheses and will have to avoid parenthetical explanations for the next month or so!

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