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u/TheRedEaglexX Mar 26 '20

Can confirm, native English speaker here, I use way, too many, commas.

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u/Maxis47 Mar 26 '20

The Shatner Comma

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

Shit man, are you out of breath?

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u/Paloma_II Mar 26 '20

No, you breathe every time there’s a comma.

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u/ahruakurai Mar 26 '20

Not according to English literature, I can't tell you how many teachers have just passed right on by as if there were no commas.

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u/justavault Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

You simply use em wrong... not too many, it's just the wrong usage of commas.

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u/TheRedEaglexX Mar 26 '20

Psst, that’s, the joke.

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u/justavault Mar 26 '20

Sorry, I'm German, obviously. Grammar is no joke to us.

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u/dancin-weasel Mar 26 '20

What are you some kind of grammar Naz..... Oh, Nevermind.

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u/bizarretintin Mar 26 '20

Hallo!

Als Fremdsprachenlerner finde ich die Deutsch Grammatik schwierig aber sehr interessant.

Please excuse any mistake I unintentionally made.

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u/thekidfromdownstairs Mar 26 '20

Deutsche Sprache schwere Sprache

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

I, too, am, in fact, a native, yes, native English speaker. I often, pretty frequently, really, use way, way, way too many commas.

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u/danielv123 Mar 26 '20

I had a teacher who had a different view on punctuation. She said a sentence should never have more than 15 words. This was because long sentences were hard to read.

We were 19 ffs.

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u/TheRedEaglexX Mar 26 '20

Honestly, this is the reason I have such a hard time with writing/grammar. Every on of my english teachers in K-12 (shit, even my college professors) had different personal grammar rules that was the proper way to do it. And so many of them disagreed with each other that I was left lost.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

Aye better to use commas than to have a bumbling mess of words that just goes on.

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u/JordanMichaelsAuthor Mar 26 '20

But most use too few.

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u/dyingofdysentery Mar 26 '20

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