When you post a URL and the forum tries to embed it in your post, it'll break if the URL ends in a parenthesis. [url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p ...

In the large picture of human history, the brief few centuries when print reigned unchallenged as the most revered form of knowledge will be seen as a mere parenthesis. Before Gutenberg, knowledge was ...

Brackets can be square, angled, curly or curved. Curved brackets are the most common, so people often just call them brackets. They are used to indicate parenthesis – which is extra information added ...

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using punctuation ...