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I'm a huge comma fan, which notable authors overused them the most?
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>>25129554
virginia woolf will use like 15 in a sentence
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>>25129557
angloids don't count
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James.
>She had got up with these last words; she stood there before him with that particular suggestion in her aspect to which even the long habit of their life together had not closed his sense, kept sharp, year after year, by the collation of types and signs, the comparison of fine object with fine object, of one degree of finish, of one form of the exquisite with another–the appearance of some slight, slim draped “antique” of Vatican or Capitoline halls, late and refined, rare as a note and immortal as a link, set in motion by the miraculous infusion of a modern impulse and yet, for all the sudden freedom of folds and footsteps forsaken after centuries by their pedestal, keeping still the quality, the perfect felicity, of the statue; the blurred, absent eyes, the smoothed, elegant, nameless head, the impersonal flit of a creature lost in an alien age and passing as an image in worn relief round and round a precious vase.
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>>25129554
>commas
Disgusting and run-on sentence chads rise up.
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>>25129554
Beckett in Watt
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Just finished turning of the screw, and holy shit, the comma usage, is just, egregious
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>>25129554
I'm fond of tapirs
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No sentence should have more than 4 in a row; arguments that semicolons emdashes and parantheses confuse readers is inane, those retards don't read books anyway.
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>>25130590
Tapirs have the most comma shaped heads of any animal if you think about it. And arguably even if you don't think about it.
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>>25129554
I don't think anyone, in their heart of hearts, knows what commas are for... Don't even talk to me about semicolons.
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>>25129554
>I'm a huge comma fan
Impeccable taste anon, please accept this complimentary gift of two hundred and fifty commas, to pepper and salt any books that, in your opinion, are lacking commas

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>>25129554
For me it’s the ol’ ; or the … and sometimes the —



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