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"Loose-yet-intelligble" is exactly the kind of grammar you have used in this comment, though. You should have put a comma after "this" in your first sentence,
by eavc 15y ago
"Loose-yet-intelligble" is exactly the kind of grammar you have used in this comment, though.
You should have put a comma after "this" in your first sentence, and you've got a comma splice in the second sentence.
The point they were making is that violations of formal grammar can be useful in some contexts and for some purposes.
What I just wrote is an apt example, actually. I used "they" as a gender-neutral third-person pronoun because, though it's not standard grammar, it suits the tone I want to convey here.
- epo 15y agoThis is a silly game, you mispelt "intelligible". The missing comma is well spotted and down to my lack of proofreading, the comma splice is more stylistic than anything in my view. However, by concentrating on how I wrote, rather than what I wrote, you are reinforcing my view that "loose-yet-intelligible" is not OK. You provided further reinforcement by writing a clumsy sentence which you then felt the need to justify.