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Old 8 May 2026, 05:38 AM   #227
JeremyNicoll
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I'm guessing you didn't see the open-bracket a few posts ago?

It means that the bit within BOTH brackets is a sort of side-note to what the main part of the sentence is about. So you can't just end the main sentence without bringing the bracketed part to a meaningful end & then bringing the main part to an end.

Punctuation is there for a reason.
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