Taken From : http://hubpages.com/hub/Loco-In-Parentheses
Genesis (In The Beginning Was…?)
Well, its been 7 hours so I thought I better Hubagain (you love the old neologisms dont you, to coin a phrase) sshhh Im waxing lyrical. Its been 7 hours, no fans, no stats “we need 2 days to gather information” O I am a voice crying in the wilderness:
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.– Isaiah 40: 1-3 (KJV)
I’m Stuck over here (like a right- aligned voice crying in the wilderness. Anyway 29.1 billion web pages, thats some wilderness)
Ok fixed it. Yes. Anyway I was going to tell the story of how you were born. (Who me? I thought I was always here) Well thats true. Your reference >
Parentheses (( )), also called round brackets, always occur in pairs. They have one major use and one or two minor uses.
Most commonly, a pair of parentheses is used to set off a strong or weak interruption, rather like a pair of dashes or a pair of bracketing commas. In the case of a strong interruption, very often it is possible to use either dashes or parentheses:
The destruction of Guernica ‹ and there is no doubt that the destruction was deliberate ‹ horrified the world. The destruction of Guernica (and there is no doubt that the destruction was deliberate) horrified the world. As a rule, however, we prefer parentheses, rather than dashes or bracketing commas, when the interruption is best regarded as a kind of “aside” from the writer to the reader: On the (rare!) occasion when you use a Latin abbreviation, be sure to punctuate it correctly. The battle of Jutland (as you may recall from your school days) put an end to Germany’s naval threat. The Basque language is not (as the old legend has it) exceedingly difficult to learn. We also use parentheses to set off an interruption which merely provides additional information or a brief explanation of an unfamiliar term: The number of living languages (currently about 6000, by most estimates) is decreasing rapidly. The bodegas (wine cellars) of the Rioja are an essential stop on any visit to northern Spain. The royal portraits of Velázquez (or Velásquez) are justly renowned. The German philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) laid the foundations of formal logic and of semantics.
(Wow. Im pretty cool, people use me a lot and I’ve been around, like, for ever. So what do you mean you created me?) Well I gave you a voice. (a voice?) Yes. You see I thought that in order to remember things like web addresses, just writing .com was a bit minimalist so I created (dot) com. (Go on). Well I realised two things
- People sub-vocalise (sotto voce)
- People actually say dot com
- A web address thats a sentence is really cool
(Ok so you actually wrote Irish Secure (dot) com, o wow I nested, is that ok? To nest?) Yes, but don’t get carried away. (Ok (echo(echo(echo)))). Stop it, this is serious (Yes sir, scribe sir) So I also started creating sentences as domain names because they were easy to remember. (por example?) WeddingsOnTheInternet (dot) com and I realised as it was something that was said I could actually write it properly hence Weddings On The Internet (dot) com, Look What I Found In The Attic (dot) com, Its Bigger On The Inside (dot) com. And my all time favourite : Inside Im Dancing (dot) com. But it was Sekani (your daughter) yes Sekani my 16 year old daughter who really showed me the way. I said I would buy her a domain for her 16th birthday. She was a bit unsure and thinking of a good name that hadn’t been used was not easy. I told her about registering a sentence so she thought about it and came up with : http://theonlyplacetobeifyoureallywanttobesomewhere.com/ (OMG she is so cool, wow chip off the old block a?) yep The Only Place To Be If You Really Want To Be Somewhere (dot) com. I am her parent, a bit loco perhaps but her real dad. But, with you, I am In Loco Parentis (O, I get it you punny fellow, In Loco Parentheses, ha ha ha ha ). Yea. Hey, We are friends right? (Sure, well I feel Im like (gulp) part of you, a sorta inner voice of reason while you are free to wax lyrical) O Noble Bracket. Verily Thou Doth Giveth Me The Freedom To Be. (To be? To be …what?) No, no no. Its The Existential “Be” The “Be”ing and Nothingness Be The Be or Not To Be Be (wot? u r daft. But, I like you) Thanks, you’re not so bad your self.
