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Should some people have their comma privileges taken away?

When you use one, every few words, it reads, like you're out of.... breath. Just use them where you need them! Quit wasting commas that other people could be using!

Posted - August 22, 2016

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  • 2465

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    Now chill out! No need to repay me.  I didn't pay for them.  Randy found them stuck to the inside of a plastic garbage, bin/bag liner that he bought at Goodwill. 

      August 22, 2016 8:38 PM MDT
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  • 304
    What if im asthmatic and i cant make you understand my viewpoint without them?
      August 22, 2016 8:49 PM MDT
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  • 1113
    That's your allotment for the week mister, don't you dare come asking me for a single comma till next Tuesday!! D:
      August 22, 2016 9:50 PM MDT
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  • 3191

    Ah, they don't cost me, or anyone else, anything...lets go comma crazy! Oh, I see Problem Child beat me to it...oh wth,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,...(Yes, as a matter of fact, I am lazy.  :)

      August 22, 2016 10:03 PM MDT
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  • 1113
    If you'rw having an asthma attack you need to take a break from AM
      August 22, 2016 10:07 PM MDT
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  • LOL!

      August 22, 2016 10:30 PM MDT
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  • 2758

    Now, why, on, earth, would, you, even, suggest, such, a, thing?  Where, would, we, be, without, our, comma, friends? Do, you, want, to, cause, a, mass, comma, extinction, event?

      August 23, 2016 12:02 AM MDT
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  • 46117

    I am a good comma person.   I even know how do wield a mean semi-colon.

      August 23, 2016 12:41 AM MDT
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  • 17261
    Lolz. Il, keep using mine, and I'll most likely misplace them more than half the time. All the grammar nazis love me... Mmhmmmm.
      August 23, 2016 12:42 AM MDT
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  • 640

    Ha, ha super funny!

      August 23, 2016 1:00 AM MDT
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  • I hereby promise to use no commas for 24 hours.

    Just a couple of weeks ago I did an 8-hour workshop on punctuation.

    It's far more flexible than grammar police would like us to realise.

    I like the Oxford University guide but find that the results can go two ways.

    Sometimes it clarifies meaning perfectly.

    Other times it sounds too bookish and unnatural.

    I reckon aM is great for experimenting.

      August 23, 2016 1:45 AM MDT
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  • 2465

    Sniff, sniff, snivel.  Awe, how comma you actin' that way ;((((   Besides, you better be nicer to me or next time  I'll # your tiny ! into the dirt and you'll be cryin' like a little *.  That's all I have to say about the matter, period.  And don't you ever ? me about it again or I'll hunt you down and / all four of your tires.  And I'll bet you a $ to a donut, you'll think twice before trying to - my spirits.  Now that I've delivered a well deserved tongue lashing, I think we're about =

      August 23, 2016 1:55 AM MDT
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  • 53509
    Lol, brilliant!

    ~
      August 23, 2016 6:05 AM MDT
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  • 53509
    I think you just killed him.

    ~
      August 23, 2016 6:05 AM MDT
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  • 53509
    :)
      August 23, 2016 6:06 AM MDT
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  • 3907

    Hello R:

    Nahhh..  I got no problem with commas..  It's them damn apo'strophies that vex me.

    excon

      August 23, 2016 8:04 AM MDT
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  • All hail the ellipse...

      August 23, 2016 12:56 PM MDT
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  • You never see mine because mine are comma chameleons.
      August 23, 2016 1:14 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    You're disturbing public order with your comma abuse, Some1!!
      August 23, 2016 3:15 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Haha... That alone is a rebellious thought...
      August 23, 2016 3:50 PM MDT
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  • 1113

    This is a travesty of grammar, excon. A travesty I say! You didn't even take out any letters, you just stuck that poor apostrophe in there for NO REASON. That makes me want to cry. :(

      August 23, 2016 3:56 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Isn't it the one chopping the onions that will cry? ;-)
      August 23, 2016 3:58 PM MDT
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  • 1113

    Thank you for thinking of the commas!!

    When you put a comma in, it's a pause. When you put too many commas in your sentences, it sounds like you're gasping for breath, in my opinion. Or it makes you sound unbearably pretentious. 

      August 23, 2016 3:58 PM MDT
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  • 1113

      August 23, 2016 3:58 PM MDT
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