Talk:parenthesis

Via Middle French
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)

Double and triple
Should we have double parenthesis/double parentheses and triple parenthesis/triple parentheses pages to define per 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)