Dearest Emma,

Thank you for your kind words. Your note is very lovely but grammatically fucked in the ass with a bottle brush (brackets within parentheses do indeed work (“parentheses” is another word for “brackets”), but you only need to put one bracket in at a time (when you’re using a bracket within a bracket (or a parenthesis within a parenthesis)). Always remember to end your parenthesizing/bracketing ventures with exactly the same amount of brackets you begun with. Under no circumstances may you have more, and definitely never any less (if you’re paying attention you’ll notice there are currently two sets of unclosed brackets in this paragraph) (but not any more!)).

Neat, tidy and clean (but very confusing when smiley faces ( : ) ) or frowny faces ( : ( ) are involved) parentheses are a truly wonderful grammatical tool (because you can put sentences within sentences (and sentences within those sentences (you get the idea?).).). It’s also very important to note that punctuation (for example full stops or question marks) are placed AFTER the closing parenthesis (or bracket) because the sentence cannot finish before the bracket does (because a sentence within brackets standing alone, not already IN a sentence doesn’t make any sense at all (because why on earth would you need brackets around a sentence that wasn’t already in a sentence (that’s the whole point of brackets, right?)?).).

Are you feeling me sister?