Comma splices: historical and informal, not wrong
Originally posted on Motivated Grammar:
I’ve been noticing a lot of aspersions being cast against against the comma splice recently. A quick sampling: “The dreaded comma splice rears its ugly head again.” “Splices are the worst, namely because there are probably over a hundred other ways to combine the clauses correctly”* “My senior English teacher…
I’ve been noticing a lot of aspersions being cast against against the comma splice recently. A quick sampling: “The dreaded comma splice rears its ugly head again.” “Splices are the worst, namely because there are probably over a hundred other ways to combine the clauses correctly”* “My senior English teacher…
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Mar 23, 2014 11:58PM
Whenever I read the term, comma splice, I immediately think of Dr Fell and Syd McGinley! Lol.
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Haven't read those yet, for ages on my TBR list ;) But I have problems in believing "teaching subs" for other Doms. Usually I witness the opposite reaction.
Subs training other Doms?In Dr Fell, all the Doms are pussy cats and the subs are twinks. Definitely not hardcore BDSM more your typical British Daddy Discipline. And the twinks are lost souls that just need structure and certainty.
Not that Syd is "guilty" of comma splices, but one of the boys is in his class at community college (or the equivalent) Run on sentences with clause after clause after clause.
A.B. wrote: "Not that Syd is "guilty" of comma splices, but one of the boys is in his class at community college (or the equivalent) Run on sentences with clause after clause after clause."Oh, I got that part! LOL I haven't noticed lots of comma splices in her stories. I think Americans are far more uptight about them than us here or possibly also Australians? Not sure about that.
