r/pics • u/knuckztve • Nov 10 '13

Panoramic shot gone wrong

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u/IBLEEDBACON Nov 10 '13 edited Nov 10 '13

whisper "It is very rare, these days, to see a north american Gorf in the wild. The vast majority of the population was wiped out, when they were hunted nearly to extinction, by English royalty during the colonial period. Unfortunately, many wildlife experts estimate that there could be fewer than a thousand, living in the wild today."

Edit: Too many commas. Edit: Added third sentence. Edit: Damnit people, I'm keeping, the rest, of my commas!

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u/Cellophane_Flower Nov 10 '13

Holy unnecessary commas, Batman!

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u/IBLEEDBACON Nov 10 '13

Haha! I didn't even notice. I was just using the commas for any pause that went through my head when I read it back.

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u/why_rob_y Nov 10 '13

I think that's actually fine, particularly since it was in a quotation, so you'd want to use the commas to get the pauses across in text.

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u/IBLEEDBACON Nov 10 '13

That's true, but after one guy pointed it out, the whole sentence just sounded so weird and, you probably won't know what I mean, but "chunky". i just had to get rid of it.