{
  "id": 1684156,
  "title": "On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/on-that-disgraceful-disreputable-wonderful-form-of-punctuation-the",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-18T09:10:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Literary Hub",
    "slug": "literary-hub",
    "url": "https://lithub.com/on-that-disgraceful-disreputable-wonderful-form-of-punctuation-the-parenthesis/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Shakespeare and friends would call punctuation “distinctions,” according to the Latin tradition, or “pointing,” because of the medieval practice of placing dots or points at different levels of the line. The first occurrence of the word “punctuation” happens in the French dialogue",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}