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You know you're going too far when you're using square brackets (media.piefed.world)
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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Parenthesis is singular, parentheses is plural. One parenthesis, two parentheses. Like crisis/crises, axis/axes.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

but, parentheses always comes in pairs.

if not someone needs to be executed

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

They sure do, unless you missed a parenthesis and somebody wants to point that out ;)

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

The op image incorrectly used the singular when they meant the plural

[–] Raptorox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Smileys? :)? Unpaired?
Unless you specifically meant the side thought use

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You might want to refer to the left parenthesis or the right parenthesis and then it would be incorrect to use the plural.