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Genuinely curious; multiple front-page posts have glaring errors that anyone with a fifth-grade education should have seen.

It is difficult to understand someone's position when they don't take the time to explain it clearly. And if you don't want to take time to state your argument coherently, do you really expect the rest of us to take time sorting through your word vomit to try and see your point?

Or is it okay to speak like joggers here?

-=Edit=- Okay, got it. My question has been answered. Thank you.

Genuinely curious; multiple front-page posts have glaring errors that anyone with a fifth-grade education should have seen. It is difficult to understand someone's position when they don't take the time to explain it clearly. And if *you* don't want to take time to state your argument coherently, do you really expect the rest of us to take time sorting through your word vomit to try and see your point? Or is it okay to speak like joggers here? -=Edit=- Okay, got it. My question has been answered. Thank you.

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[–] • 10 pts

I'm guilty of misusing commas all the time. It's because I write like I talk, and use commas more as a pause than as actual commas.

[–] • 8 pts

That's a style of writing and it's quite common. Generally when people start working towards becoming pedantic grammar Nazis it's never a good sign. Next they'll start telling you dumb shit like you aren't even White or you're crazy etc... It's typical demoralization shill tactics and this is how "they" attack the users and not the subject because it's easier. Not sure if OP is one of them and not going to go there anyhow, I'm just saying from my perspective.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

>It's because I write like I talk, and use commas more as a pause than as actual commas.

That's actually what I do. I'm not writing a scientific paper or important research paper. I'm shit posting on Poal.

[–] • 1 pt

You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, potato chip and cheetoh dusted, and Christmas sprinkled hands.

[–] • 0 pt

To add to this, English comma rules are a lot (or seem that way) more fast and loose than other languages, such as German.