Adding extra information to a sentence (or paragraph) using brackets, dashes or commas. If you take it out again, the passage should still make grammatical sense. "The case was worn - and very full - ...
When we're writing, we can add extra words to a sentence to give more information or explanation. We call the extra words that have been added a parenthesis. Parenthesis is a word or clause inserted ...
In the large picture of human history, the brief few centuries when print reigned unchallenged as the most revered form of knowledge will be seen as a mere parenthesis. Before Gutenberg, knowledge was ...
Could the most reliable futurist of the digital age be…Johannes Gutenberg? Possibly. Or, definitely, if you subscribe to the theory of the Gutenberg Parenthesis: the idea that the post-Gutenberg era — ...