As a native speaker, I understand the text, which is the most important thing.

That said, the correct word is parenthesis. Parens is not an English word of which I am aware.

On 11/17/2009 11:00 AM, Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote:

In the file using.pot in the Script-Fu lesson the writer is using "parens". ("statement in Scheme starts and ends with parens"). Perhaps I'm a bit conservative minded here? Is "parens" regular English (american) now or is it meant to be something else than "parenthesis"? Kolbjoern

On 11/17/2009 05:14 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:

As a native speaker, I understand the text, which is the most important thing.

That said, the correct word is parenthesis. Parens is not an English word of which I am aware.

While hopefully not being too pedantic, I would point out that "parenthesis" is singular, whereas "parentheses" is plural -- the usage here appears to me to be plural.

On 11/17/2009 11:00 AM, Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote:

In the file using.pot in the Script-Fu lesson the writer is using "parens". ("statement in Scheme starts and ends with parens"). Perhaps I'm a bit conservative minded here? Is "parens" regular English (american) now or is it meant to be something else than "parenthesis"? Kolbjoern