Commas

[Emo EMAW]

I like to think of commas as a Chris Harper head fake to the inside just to pop it outside and catch it over the shoulder for 46 yards.  Commence:  eating soup.

[Rams]

there needs to be something that's like halfway between a period and a comma. we really mumped up there.

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[pissclams]

just use extra spaces     they're very versatile and can do many things that traditional/ordinary punctuation cannot do

[pissclams]

if anyone has ideas they would like to submit for new punctuation rules this is your thread fellas     get to work sons

[star seed 7]

capital letters      yuck

[420seriouscat69]

This is my kinda thread.

[Skipper44]

there needs to be something that's like halfway between a period and a comma. we really mumped up there.

I use a semicolon (likely incorrectly)

[pissclams]

imagine not having to learn all of the rules of the road about commas about periods about colons and semicolons and other punctuation back in elementary school now quit imagining because this happening 

motto        lets punch punctuation back to the stone ages where it belongs

[slobber]

imagine not having to learn all of the rules of the road about commas about periods about colons and semicolons and other punctuation back in elementary school now quit imagining because this happening 

motto        lets punch punctuation back to the stone ages where it belongs

this sounds great but i think it will lead to anarchy within 48 hours
a world without punctuation may not be a world I want to live in
time will tell but i am willing to give it a go

i will bet legal people will really suck at this

[kim carnes]

this is a losing battle

[8manpick]

imagine not having to learn all of the rules of the road about commas about periods about colons and semicolons and other punctuation back in elementary school now quit imagining because this happening 

motto        lets punch punctuation back to the stone ages where it belongs

Interesting post rick daris

[DQ12]

there needs to be something that's like halfway between a period and a comma. we really mumped up there.

you can connect two closely related independent clauses with a semicolon if that's your style.

[Matt Siebrant's Left Hand]

Let's eat grandma!!

I'm hilarious.
/thread

[Dr Rick Daris]

there needs to be something that's like halfway between a period and a comma. we really mumped up there.

you can connect two closely related independent clauses with a semicolon if that's your style.

what i want is the ability to induce an extended pause after a series of words that isn't a sentence. partly for the induced pause, but also because of inflection difference that come along with it. weird i guess, but that's what i want. and i don't think there is something that allows me to do that. dunno.

[Dr Rick Daris]

Let's eat grandma!!

I'm hilarious.
/thread

i counted. not 5, 7, 5.

[bones129]

Someone once told me that a comma is nothing more than half a quotation mark that never got taller. 

[Dr Rick Daris]

there needs to be something that's like halfway between a period and a comma. we really mumped up there.

you can connect two closely related independent clauses with a semicolon if that's your style.

what i want is the ability to induce an extended pause after a series of words that isn't a sentence. partly for the induced pause, but also because of inflection difference that come along with it. weird i guess, but that's what i want. and i don't think there is something that allows me to do that. dunno.

like, the written word should be closer to conversational speech. we should have the ability to force an extended pause even if we didn't just write a complete sentence or maybe want to start the next part of speech with an and or something. the current commas, periods, question marks and exclamation points just aren't enough. instead of getting rid of things like commas, we should be adding a few more. and oh yeah, excellent posts by the original poster in this thread.

[8manpick]

there needs to be something that's like halfway between a period and a comma. we really mumped up there.

you can connect two closely related independent clauses with a semicolon if that's your style.

what i want is the ability to induce an extended pause after a series of words that isn't a sentence. partly for the induced pause, but also because of inflection difference that come along with it. weird i guess, but that's what i want. and i don't think there is something that allows me to do that. dunno.

like, the written word should be closer to conversational speech. we should have the ability to force an extended pause even if we didn't just write a complete sentence or maybe want to start the next part of speech with an and or something. the current commas, periods, question marks and exclamation points just aren't enough. instead of getting rid of things like commas, we should be adding a few more. and oh yeah, excellent posts by the original poster in this thread.

What about ellipses... (?)

[Dr Rick Daris]

there needs to be something that's like halfway between a period and a comma. we really mumped up there.

you can connect two closely related independent clauses with a semicolon if that's your style.

what i want is the ability to induce an extended pause after a series of words that isn't a sentence. partly for the induced pause, but also because of inflection difference that come along with it. weird i guess, but that's what i want. and i don't think there is something that allows me to do that. dunno.

like, the written word should be closer to conversational speech. we should have the ability to force an extended pause even if we didn't just write a complete sentence or maybe want to start the next part of speech with an and or something. the current commas, periods, question marks and exclamation points just aren't enough. instead of getting rid of things like commas, we should be adding a few more. and oh yeah, excellent posts by the original poster in this thread.

What about ellipses... (?)

not exactly what i want.  like, you know how eskimos have like forty words for snow or whatever? i want that, but with writing words in a very exact and specific way so that people reading them would read them how i would say them if i was saying them and now writing them.

[j-dub]

i'm on the fence. what does boo radley say?

that'll prob decide it for me.

[Dr Rick Daris]

i'm on the fence. what does boo radley say?

that'll prob decide it for me.

boo radley is a cat j-dub. it's going to lick itself for a few hours and then go sleep in the corner for a couple of days. if you're waiting on it's opinion, then you're going to be waiting a while is what i'm saying.

[j-dub]

i'm on the fence. what does boo radley say?

that'll prob decide it for me.

boo radley is a cat j-dub. it's going to lick itself for a few hours and then go sleep in the corner for a couple of days. if you're waiting on it's opinion, then you're going to be wait a while is what i'm saying.

i'm waiting on boo's meow and that's all there is to it 

[DQ12]

Comma comma comma comma comma chameleon

[Rage Against the McKee]

there needs to be something that's like halfway between a period and a comma. we really mumped up there.

you can connect two closely related independent clauses with a semicolon if that's your style.

what i want is the ability to induce an extended pause after a series of words that isn't a sentence. partly for the induced pause, but also because of inflection difference that come along with it. weird i guess, but that's what i want. and i don't think there is something that allows me to do that. dunno.

like, the written word should be closer to conversational speech. we should have the ability to force an extended pause even if we didn't just write a complete sentence or maybe want to start the next part of speech with an and or something. the current commas, periods, question marks and exclamation points just aren't enough. instead of getting rid of things like commas, we should be adding a few more. and oh yeah, excellent posts by the original poster in this thread.

What about ellipses... (?)

not exactly what i want.  like, you know how eskimos have like forty words for snow or whatever? i want that, but with writing words in a very exact and specific way so that people reading them would read them how i would say them if i was saying them and now writing them.

Maybe you could start using collipses , , , and then if enough people read the board they would eventually make their way into Webster's.

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

my grandpa was in a comma after a car accident once. i dont think theyre anything to joke about.