Timeline for Comma — a punctuation error?
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| Oct 23, 2012 at 11:24 | vote | accept | EnglishWacko | ||
| Oct 23, 2012 at 0:14 | history | edited | MetaEd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2012 at 20:56 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @itsbruce The Wikipedia article mentioned above does not apply. This is something else altogether, and certainly constructive. It should not be closed, for it is a legitimate question. | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 19:49 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2012 at 17:38 | comment | added | Barrie England | It's what he calls a joining comma, 'used to join two complete sentences into a single sentence'. | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 17:34 | comment | added | EnglishWacko | @BarrieEngland Interestingly, Larry doesn't seem to mention the "dependent"/"independent" issue at all. Hmm. | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 17:02 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 17:00 | comment | added | Barrie England | Whatever it is, or isn't, it's not a grammatical error. Punctuation isn't grammar. If you want advice on punctuation, I recommend Larry Trask's: informatics.sussex.ac.uk/department/docs/punctuation/… | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 16:37 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | That is... what can this community add? (Couldn't edit that in) | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 16:31 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | All that's going to happen is that either you get an answer saying "Some say yes and some say no," or you get a selection of answers saying Yes and No. If "some style guides" say one thing and some another, there's no definitive answer, surely; which is exactly what the Wikipedia article implies. | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 16:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 22, 2012 at 16:26 | comment | added | EnglishWacko | @itsbruce Wikipedia mentions "some style guides". I therefore see nothing wrong with my question, and would appreciate input from others. | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 16:20 | history | edited | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2012 at 16:16 | comment | added | itsbruce | I don't see this as a constructive question, in it's current form. That wikipedia paragraph gives you as handy a summary as you are likely to find; all this could generate here is more argument. | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 16:06 | history | asked | EnglishWacko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |