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End of the comma?

"Will We Use Commas in the Future?"
Of course not. We can only use commas in the present.
 
I think that publishing will lag behind other writing in losing commas, but it's slowly moving away. The Chicago Manual of Style is in its confused period on how long an introductory clause has to be to require a comma. In the last edition, it cited three words. Now it just says you don't need once when the clause is "short." (Whatever that means.)

I'm working on two book edits at the moment and my problem with both is that the authors are dropping them in where they confuse rather than clarify and aren't putting them where they are absolutely necessary. Like they wrote it without commas and then just sprinkled them on top later.
 
patientlee said:
"Like" and "you know" work well. :D
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Only, I think, to the teenage fashionista (struggling to keep up with peers) or the truly ill-educated, fanned by the stupidity on hand-held devices that do not accept 'grammar' as part of the language.
 
Handley_Page said:
Only, I think, to the teenage fashionista (struggling to keep up with peers) or the truly ill-educated, fanned by the stupidity on hand-held devices that do not accept 'grammar' as part of the language.
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I teach high school. I hear these and "literally" all day long. :rolleyes:
 
Right now I'm far less bothered by comma (mis)use than the trend to describe everything as some kind of porn. I was reading a recap of an episode of SyFy's "Helix" in which the author described it as "competence porn."

*headdesk*
 
So all that crude about comma's I learned in high school is now just useless trash to be thrown aside and ignored?

What next? The Period?

I guess everything will have to be expressed as a query now?

Or an exclamation! Although they to are frowned upon are they not?

:eek:
 
A_Little_Show said:
Yes. In my experience, "literally" is most often used when the speaker meant "figuratively".
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Or as shorthand for "that's my opinion, but mine is the only opinion that counts, so I don't need to bother to research it."
 
They need to bring back school house rock, and the letter people. Make that shit staple in high school english classes.
 
They can have my comma key when they pry it from my cold dead keyboard!! Molon labe commas motherfuckers!!! :D
 
Saxon_Hart said:
They can have my comma key when they pry it from my cold dead keyboard!! Molon labe commas motherfuckers!!! :D
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Ah, but, is the comma key now blank on your computer? You're not serious about it until you can't eyeball a comma and right-facing angle bracket on it like you can't see the letter on the S, E, and N keys
 
Zeb_Carter said:
So all that crude about comma's I learned in high school is now just useless trash to be thrown aside and ignored?

What next? The Period?

I guess everything will have to be expressed as a query now?

Or an exclamation! Although they to are frowned upon are they not?

:eek:
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I'd be happy to get rid of the period. Bring on menopause.

Oh. Wrong period. Never mind. :eek:
 
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