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crumpets -> RE: Profile in Question (9/8/2015 8:43:14 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Kirata
Ahhh... well then I think we've found the problem.
... Strunk and White recommend the stuffy and unidiomatic
The good thing about you is that it's easy to understand your point of view, simply because you're intelligent enough to explain it.
I understand what you're clarifying for me, which is my (rather profuse) use of the comma, which I use to indicate a pause in the sentence, is, to you, a bit "stuffy", and, in fact ... to you, it's a non idiomatic use of the (Am) English language.
What you mean, I infer, is that the comma is used not in a form that feels correct and natural to native speakers, but in a stuffy, aristocratic way.
Bear in mind that most native speakers who write here, write puerile trash, and that's the best part of their writing; their spelling, punctuation, and, may I say, um, grammar (if you can refer to it as that), is horrendous.
Add the fact that the vast majority of the unwashed rabble who collect here likely don't even know the difference of styles such as the vagaries of using who and whom, lay and lie, anyway and anyways, further and farther, lend and loan, it and it's, fewer and less, etc., I consider your explanation a compliment.
Fact is, if my writing stands out, even for something as base as its use of a comma, then, well ... I'll consider that a small victory for the (Am) English language.
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