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Some of those parens could’ve been replaced with commas and retain their meaning (that’s what I do to avoid nesting, so that it doesn’t get confusing).

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Or he could have used brackets.

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I’ve never seen that being used, but it seems it’s a thing in English. What if you wanna best deeper? Do you go {}? Then <>? «»?

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Not really an English thing so much as a math thing that makes too much sense to not use elsewhere. For instance, in math you might have x[3 - 7{3y + (a * b)}]. I haven’t actually seen them go deeper than three sets, though, so I’m not sure what would be next.

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You have command of English grammar, clearly.

How’s your Finnish?

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Not as good as my other primary languages, I have to admit. Finnish has too many consonants for my taste.

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Wait until you need nested commas, those lists won’t delineate themselves!

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