I use <abbr> for parenthetical remarks (that is, these) when I write. Is that acceptable usage? I would have rendered the line above, on my blog, as:

    I use &lt;abbr&gt; for <abbr title="these">parenthetical remarks</abbr> when I write.

Having found that well-written anchor text just flows as part of the body of a document, the link itself becoming invisible if you were to reformat the text to remove it, I tried the same thing with parentheticals. So far, I think it's worked wonders for my writing. Anything I want to say that's orthogonal to the main point, but still interesting, can still be there in a sort of "director's cut" view, but instead of having all my extra clippings forced upon you, you have to decide to look.

If that isn't proper, I hope there's an <aside> tag in some upcoming version of HTML; it's at about the same "semantic" level as <q>.