Timeline for What stylistic or grammatical reasons prevent users and grammarians from reaching a consensus in the debate over the comma splice?
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| Nov 10, 2017 at 21:07 | comment | added | English Student | Welcome to English Language and Usage (also called ELU, English.StackExchange or English.SE) @Adam and I hope you will contribute many more such good answers and questions here! | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 21:00 | comment | added | Adam | I think yours is a fair characterization of my position. | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 20:41 | comment | added | English Student | Thanks for writing this though-provoking answer @Adam! Do I understand you correctly as saying that for many people, using the comma splice is a decision made in good faith, probably without knowing there is any such thing as a 'comma splice', and subsequently defended against those who insist (with no more concrete reason than the semicolon 'convention') that it's an error? It makes sense. English as it was used even 150 years ago would have been very different from the modern language and usage. | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 20:22 | history | answered | Adam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |