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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 :smag:
 
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Jelly Jiggler said:
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
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You learned English from The New Yorker.

Jelly Jiggler said:
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
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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.
 
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resu said:
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.
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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

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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

 


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