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angel_j on July 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Lyttle Lytton Contest

Any sentence with parenthesis in it.

shinkarom on July 16, 2019 [–]

(define contest "The Lyttle Lisper Contest") (print contest)

angel_j on July 16, 2019 | [–]

Parenthesis are fine for code, but in prose you they are usually some inane interruption of thought that could be deleted, or turned into a sentence.

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