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This is certainly the case, but it does make it all the more amusing that the myth > Commas denote a pause in speaking.... Speak the sentence aloud to find pau
by suuuuuuuu 1y ago
This is certainly the case, but it does make it all the more amusing that the myth
> Commas denote a pause in speaking.... Speak the sentence aloud to find pauses.
made its way into this article. Hard to imagine that this particular point, to which I might attribute many of the comma splices I see in scientific writing, actually came from a professional writer.
- jjmarr 1y agoMcCarthy's books involve unrelenting violence. If he viewed commas as pauses, it makes sense that he would never use them.
- oh_my_goodness 1y agoIt goes without saying that you're a better writer than Cormac McCarthy. Tell us something beyond that.
- suuuuuuuu 1y agoThe implication was that likely not all of the advice in this article, which was written by biologists, is actually attributable to McCarthy.