Are you missing commas? Don’t look further, feel free to take all redundant ones from my tweets. You will find them appearing from nowhere in conjunction with a space.
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I don't think I fully understand the rule of commas... but I've also come to think people who criticize others (esp those whose first lang isn't English) for the misuse of commas (whatever that means) are mainly assholes so I don't spend that much time worrying about my comma.
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I agree 100%. I think it's hard to say with the comma splice as I believe it is a genuine grammatical error in the same way in Greek having the wrong ending for a noun declension is a genuine grammatical error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice …
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A genuine grammatical error is not some kind of moral mistake and definitely should not be policed in a rude way. At the end of the day making mistakes is totally fine and those who enjoy correcting others have deeper issues than a person who makes grammatical mistake...
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I would rather say "that's not a mistake" (even if I thought it was) to a little language fascist who tries to correct others, than to go around correcting others though! Context matters! And of course all these rules are up for discussion and change whether we want it or not.
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Not helpful at all! Mocking is always easier than explaining, particularly if you do not know yourself the reasons clearly. And when these criticisms come from people who can only speak a languge (often barely), "asshole" sounds right to me.
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It's almost always monolinguals! You are so right!
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Also I love how they think everybody knows that the comma splice is wrong (from birth? how?) when no other language has this BS feature. "Why do you think a Spanish-speaker (for example) knows about your assclown secret punctuation ritual, you Englishino? Grow up."
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Hahaha... Yes!
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This also depends on the century. Shakespeare, commas are breathing markers. They developed a more rhetorical function in the 18th century if I remember correctly.
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That's interesting!
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It’s one of the reasons I end up with a lot of “extraneous” commas too as a native speaker. (But comma splices are often like nails on a chalkboard to me and I just can’t with Stephen King because of his comma splices.)
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Yes, sorry of course. Newton's great for sentences that in Modern English would be a paragraph to a small book of sentences. It's because of influence from Romance and other langues and as time goes on English gets more and more decoupled.
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I love how grammarians decided that to deliberately split an infinitive was a crime in English because it's not possible in Latin.
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Not to mention ending a sentence with a preposition. It’s perfectly fine in English dammit!
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(Although, actual grammarians wouldn’t tell you its wrong to do so, just pretentious and incorrect rule one-uppers.)
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Aha! In Spanish you cannot end a sentence with a preposition, it is simply nonsensical. And there I was chatting about work with some Spanish friends on the tube in Madrid, when right at the time we stopped at a station, I finished my sentence with, of course, a preposition.
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My Ph.D. supervisor preferred instead of explaining it to tell me just to remove them all and make an appendix for my Ph.D. that is just commas... which is funny (I guess) but it's also not exactly helping me learn anything.
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