Logical punctuation, please.

I’ve had this issue since around the time I started to write online. Commas, periods, parens, single/double quoations… I knew what the “proper” rules were, dictated to me by whoever was grading my papers at that time.

But since I make my own rules here, I decided to just keep going with what I felt to be correct. And especially in the Hacker Writing Style, computer syntax would override “proper” English grammar. So I’m pretty sure I kept up my own little system for punctuation.

Maybe it drove a couple of you crazy, but there was a method to the madness, is really all I’m trying to say here.

So if I parens (like so), then the comma comes after it. But if what was in the parens was a full sentence, then I would separate it out, and even include it in the sentence. (But then again, I really should be tangenting this stuff anyway in footnotes, but I absolutely hate footnotes. Probably the better way to do this is to have a second column or some other visual system to go DEEPER.)

Also: Suck it, spellchecker. Parens is a word now.

Just a couple interesting links from Hacker News.