What can we learn from our enemies?

[Moonlight-Moonlight]

in creative prose, i would probably elect to do a run-on sentence (removing commas when they should technically be there) as a stylistic choice before having a sentence broken up by multiple commas. which is what i usually do in forum posts


^or do something like what i just did there

 

[resu]

the sentence you're talking about has another comma after the "and," and i generally don't like sentences with multiple parts separated by commas because it sounds like you're just droning on and on. if i removed the first em dash, i'd probably want to replace the other comma with an em dash

You learned English from The New Yorker.

in prose, i would probably elect to do a run-on sentence (removing commas when they should technically be there) as a stylistic choice before having a sentence broken up by multiple commas. which is what i usually do in forum posts

I think we've gone overboard in our "open style" of punctuation, which very often omits punctuation when possible. I don't see a good reason for this aversion to commas, especially. Compared to early-modern prose, even our "closed style" is sparing of them.

 

[Moonlight-Moonlight]

You learned English from The New Yorker.


I think we've gone overboard in our "open style" of punctuation, which very often omits punctuation when possible. I don't see a good reason for this aversion to commas, especially. Compared to early-modern prose, even our "closed style" is sparing of them.

sorry buddy i'm not gonna be using more commas. i am a punchy and bombastic writer
you can larp as a 1700's powdered wig faggot in the corner over there while i get these hipster bitches on my dick

 

[resu]

you can larp as a 1700's powdered wig faggot in the corner over there while i get these hipster bitches on my dick

I'll be larping as a 1600s powdered wig faggot tyvm

 

[Moonlight-Moonlight]

i also avoid use of semicolons in casual conversation (forum posting, DMing) because it makes you sound pretentious
(i replace them with commas)

but i will use them in tweets

i don't tweet much these days, but my tweeting voice is my "trying to write well" voice
everything else, like right now, is "how i actually sound"
sometimes when i join a gc full of people i haven't spoken (written) to before, i wonder if they're surprised by my trooncase, considering that i do not write that way on the tl.

i actually like and support the demonization of trooncase (and ebonics) by the amarnites -- to me, this is a welcome development, progressing beyond the niggerbabble and wiggerisms of the oakers

 

[Mooop]

get him, unc

 

[Mooop]

get him, unc

 

[Mooop]

do you have a beard?

 

[Moonlight-Moonlight]

do you have a beard?

who are you talking to
are you schizophrenic?

 

[Mooop]

who are you talking to
are you schizophrenic?

I’m talking to you, do you have a beard. I’m not schizophrenic or autistic