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by pvinis 4090 days ago
im sorry i cant help you, but the "experimental punctuation" got my attention. can you give out some more info about that?
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Sure. I've been developing it mostly in journals, as I do a ton of writing, and I've been interested in the concept of constructed language since high-school.

Currently I have just a big collection of symbols and ideas, but they are beginning to cohere into sets I would like to refine and publish as examples of the kind of work I wish there were more of.

Example of an older idea that I'm still using in journals...

(One parenthesis opens an unspoken span or comment to the reader. These may appear in published texts. If reading aloud, I would pause and read quietly in this span of text.)

((Two parenthese introduce comments on the text. Editors should take heed. These are stage directions if the work is ever carried further.))

(((Three parenthese capture my private thoughts, especially my disappointments when I fail to capture a full idea. These should not usually be published.)))