I’ve learned to back off and realize that commas, instead of parentheses, often work just fine.

Occasionally replace the parenthesis with a semicolon – or dashes – and you can get away with it more often.

im like small sentence (heres some back story though (and some deeper context thats needed (also something vaguely related to thing))).

Usually by my third edit I’m ready to send. Of course, by then I’ve begun to question if anyone is interested in my option anyway and why am I sending this email? They probably know all this already and I’m too stupid to have realized it.

“Nested Parentheticals” can totally be the title of my 15,000 word autobiography. lol

As long as you escape the inner parentheticals there is no problem (escape as in adding "" to it \(just as in programming \\\(because we do this as much as you do \\\\\\(in many languages\\\\\\).\\\)\)).

there have been times where the secondary thought overrides the primary thought, and i often end the message with just finishing the parenthesis. worst case scenario, I’ll even add a tertiary thought

I’m getting flashes of David Foster Wallace.

I use paragraphs in those cases and then I don’t usually remember but if I did I would add reference numbers, kinda like this¹

¹ it’s very useful when you have multiple parentheses at different points, I still haven’t solved the problem of nesting them unfortunately, so I welcome any suggestions

Stahhhp… I do that a lot more that parentheses, and now you’ve made me self-conscious about it lol

The other day I wrote a sentence with parenthesis and inside the parenthesis there was a comma phrase, a dash, a colon, and a semicolon on here. Only realized how much of a monstrosity the comment was after writing it, but posted it anyways.

Linus Torvalds used nested parentheses in his famous Linux announcement email (1991-08-25) so I think precedent says they’re OK.