There shouldn’t be a comma there.
And don’t say “more clear”, say “clearer”. It’s the go-go nineties and seconds count!
This panda walks into a bar…
even though i can t
reach the shift key
it doesn t mean that
i don t have things to say
there are some people who need
to remember the old saying
about judging books by
their covers just because a
book has a broken cover
doesn t meant that
there isn t shakespeare inside
it reminds me of the spider in the office
a fly came in and laughed and said what an
ugly web that spider had it was all torn
and it wasn t round at all it wasn t
at all like those nice round webs
you see in books about spiders
later the spider told me the fly was delicious
-archy
… and says, “Ouch! Who put this effing bar here?”
You’re wrong about that.
Screw the nineties. The nineties crushed my boyish heart like a polar bear crushes a corn cob pipe.
Ouch!
Given the above, its easy to see why!
Nope, I’m not. You didn’t have another subject and predicate in “and therefore more clear,” and it wasn’t part of a list, so it doesn’t get a comma before it. The style guide I happen to have on hand is *The Gregg Reference Manual *(ninth edition).
Pagraph 125:
So, in “proper punctuation and capitalization makes it easier to understand, and therefore more clear,” the objects of “makes” are “easier to understand” and “therefore more clear.” Feel free to post an example from a style guide that requires commas between two objects of a verb, though, if you can find one. Until then, I’m just going to bask in my superiority.
I never said it was required. I said you were wrong to say that it shouldn’t be there. And you were.
I posted a cite from a style guide that explicitly states that there shouldn’t be one. You, on the other hand, have continued to blow hot wind out of your ass. So, Mr. Uptight Prescriptivist, cite **any **style guide that even **allows for **a comma in the construction you used or concede the gaping hole in your glass house.
Back the fuck up, all right?
What we are having here is a conversation. It isn’t literature. It isn’t exposition. It isn’t journalism. And if I were speaking that sentence, I would pause there. Hence the comma.
Now unless you can rein in your inflammatory language, or justify it somehow, I am done with you.
Ahem.
You were bitching about “proper punctuation” without using it. Oh, and I missed “who [snip] we fucking care.” That’s also a terrible construction.
So! Here we are. House? Glass. Stone? Thrown. You? Wrong.
Cite where I was bitching please? Find one of your precious resource materials that support a claim that what I said constitutes bitching.
You seem to be under the misapprehension that I claimed somewhere that I always use perfect punctuation. While I wait for you to support that allegation, I’ll point out to you that my claim was that proper capitalization and punctuation makes understanding easier for some people. If you think that’s wrong, have at it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Gaudere’s War.
See? See? This is why proper grammar/spelling/punctuation/capitalization is necessary! We’d avoid a needless war and thousands of casualties!
(And yes, I know that my punctuation and sentence structure needs work. I can still rant about those much, much worse than I (doesn’t everyone have someone whose grammar etc. is worse than someone else’s?). It’s the pit, needed to rant.)
A thread like this, it’s inevitable. I open it and I’m just waiting for Gaudere.
The language wars are the bloodiest wars of all.
Man, not even a chuckle? Tough room.
I don’t understand. Do you mean “make” understanding easier?
you should work on your own writing style before criticizing others style
You should work on your own writing style before criticizing others style.
i typed that second sentence in case you couldn’t understand the first sentence
I typed that second sentence in case you couldn’t understand the first sentence.
i did it again
I did it again.
chuckle
