comma splice

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• Tachyon

  2014-03-10 03:49:21

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  i don't do it that often; i like semi-colons too much.
  
• Justice4243

  2014-03-10 03:50:12

  READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!
  
  i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
  

  
• Haven

  2014-03-10 05:00:17

  Let me tell you. About Fallen London.

  ^ I'm going to write a murder mystery where that picture is the only clue and it turns out everyone killed each other trying to figure out how to divide the pizza after that.
• Aliroz

  2014-03-10 16:22:30 edited 2014-03-10 16:22:41

  ...And even when your hope is gone

  move along, move along, just to make it through

  (2015 self)

  I do comma splices far too frequently.
  
  I should be executed for such heinous atrocity.
  
  Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
  
• Tre

  2014-03-10 17:08:05

  
  

  I can't say I know for sure but I think my book is probably filled with comma splices. Tre Listman has a lot of inter-narrative verbal pauses.
• Bee

  2014-03-10 22:01:54

  I used to do this constantly until a technical writing prof beat it out of me.  Now it drives me batty just to see it.
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2014-03-10 22:03:36

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  I genuinely don't know what a comma splice is and given how lax my grammar is already, I probably wouldn't care.
  
• Imipolex G

  2014-03-10 22:09:21

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Central Avenue said:

  We all know it's grammatically incorrect, we do it anyway.

  
  
• Bee

  2014-03-10 23:39:14

  If they're both complete sentences, you don't use a bloody comma without a coordinating conjunction.
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2014-03-11 06:43:04

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Oh but you do.
  
  You do it all the time, just to spit in the very face of William Shakespeare.
  
  Muahahahahaha
  
  MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  
• Tachyon

  2014-03-11 16:18:32

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Shakespeare?  i believe you mean Lynne Truss.
  
  i'm telling you, semi-colons.  You can be grammatically correct while still being as vague as you like about how the two sentences are connected.
  
• Imipolex G

  2014-03-11 16:20:50

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  is; that; so
  
• Tachyon

  2014-03-11 16:21:54

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Fragment (consider revising).
  
• Yarrun XIX

  2014-03-11 16:22:36

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Tachyon said:

  Shakespeare?  i believe you mean Lynne Truss.
  
  i'm telling you, semi-colons.  You can be grammatically correct while still being as vague as you like about how the two sentences are connected.
  

  
• Yarrun XIX

  2014-03-11 16:23:02

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Man, if I could just frame that fifth panel. 
• Fossilmaiden

  2014-03-11 16:27:22

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  She ate the shark, it was tasty.
  
• Tachyon

  2014-03-11 16:32:18

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  We all know it's grammatically incorrect but we do it anyway.
  
  i don't do it that often, because i like semi-colons too much.
  
  Let them, because i want you now and i don't care.
  
  She ate the shark and it was tasty.
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2014-03-11 20:26:29 edited 2014-03-11 20:26:38

  She at the shark, it was tasty, and y'all suck.
  
• Bee

  2014-03-11 21:53:49

  Tachyon said:

  i'm telling you, semi-colons.  You can be grammatically correct while still being as vague as you like about how the two sentences are connected.
  

  Only if they're both independent clauses and the semicolon is used to juxtapose a connection or contrast between them.
  
• Tachyon

  2014-03-11 22:12:20

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  If they weren't independent clauses they wouldn't be able to stand as sentences, now, would they? :p
  
  Also i was being just a teeny bit flippant there.
  
  (Admittedly, i'm not nearly as aware of grammatical terminology as i should be, but i know the rules quite fluently, for the most part.)
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2014-03-11 22:15:25

  oops i misspelled in my previous post
  
  bqhatevwr
  
  it's funnier that way