It is this sort of nanny-state thinking that has lead to the disappearance of appropriate punctuation from public signs, leaving the way clear for the rogue apostrophe to do it's* worst!
If the sentence inside the parentheses is incomplete, then no (like this). But if the sentence inside the parentheses stands alone, then yes. (Like this one.) Is that not the same everywhere? If everyone would just do it My Way then there wouldn't be this confusion.
*IT'S DELIBERATE. I knew that you would get this, but I couldn't stand the thought of leaving it unnoted in case a random passer-by came and judged me.
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Date: 2009-07-20 07:26 pm (UTC)If the sentence inside the parentheses is incomplete, then no (like this). But if the sentence inside the parentheses stands alone, then yes. (Like this one.) Is that not the same everywhere? If everyone would just do it My Way then there wouldn't be this confusion.
*IT'S DELIBERATE. I knew that you would get this, but I couldn't stand the thought of leaving it unnoted in case a random passer-by came and judged me.