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On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

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Shakespeare and friends would call punctuation “distinctions,” according to the Latin tradition, or “pointing,” because of the medieval practice of placing dots or points at different levels of the line. The first occurrence of the word “punctuation” happens in the French dialogue