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by pinback » Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:13 pm

Can someone explain the previous two posts to me?

Parentheticals

by P.T. Anderson » Wed Jul 09, 2003 4:21 pm

Me, too.

Parentheses

by Mamet » Wed Jul 09, 2003 4:21 pm

I do this.

by pinback » Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:48 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Jolt Country BBS.... We Create Worlds.
...Eventually.

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:46 am

OK, fair enough. Luckily, with written text in a format not, as you put it, "for children," we can put words around the dialogue and make it clearer that way. Another problem solved!

Jolt Country BBS.... We Create Worlds.

by pinback » Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:37 am

Yes, that is horrible. Unless in the picture, the character saying it is making "hand parentheses". In which case, it's probably the comic itself that is horrible.

Of course, I wouldn't know, since comics are for children.

Dialogue printing question.

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:00 am

One thing that I've noticed in some comics written by Brian Bendis as of late, is the use of the parenthesis in mid-sentence. For instance, he might do something like this:

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Daredevil: I'm really surprised that you didn't want to help out Ka-Zar. 

Jessica: I'm sorry, I just couldn't do it. I -- I have no interest in getting in a goddamn plane and going to the Antarctic (regardless of how hot your friend is) and the thought of getting eaten by a dinosaur while doing it doesn't help either.
The stuff in parenthesis, I imagine, is supposed to be dialogue that is spoken underneath Jessica's breath. (I could be totally wrong, and it could be a way to display text which is being thought and not said aloud... but I don't think that's it.)

Anyway -- does this bug people? Is it annoying to have text written that way? I have a couple places where that very thing is going on in the game I am working on, but if it's a mimesis breaker or whatever, definitely let me know. I am wondering about this like the guy who invented the thought bubble is wondering about his use of that.

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