There is more than one style of writing. Online and in communication, people tend to use conversational writing which would make the comma splices not grammatically incorrect.
In a research paper or something, they would be errors.
I’ve come to the conclusion that speech to text has played a significant role in the disappearance of commas. When things are written via speech to text, it almost never had any commas unless they say “comma”, and almost no one ever does. From there, I guess people just get used to not seeing commas, and even when they’re typing, commas don’t cross their mind.
It’s a pretty big pet peeve of mine, and I find it super frustrating to text with people who frequently used speech to text.
Yeah I never heard about them being usrd to signify pauses in speech. I’m not a native speaker but I think in general they are used to separate “sentences” (they have a verb and all that shit), interleaving sentences, and lists of items. Ofc there is a lot of nuance, for example, this sentence, and there are cases when commas should be left out (afaik). In my language I would always put a comma before “but” or “because” but in English it seems the words themselves separate the sentences. Anyway, shit is weird, English is very random.
Well for what it’s worth…super ADHD here and I absolutely do this too.
But what the fuck? Aren’t we supposed to use them as we would use pauses in speech? Did somebody teach me wrong or am I hallucinating that memory.
There is more than one style of writing. Online and in communication, people tend to use conversational writing which would make the comma splices not grammatically incorrect.
In a research paper or something, they would be errors.
I’ve come to the conclusion that speech to text has played a significant role in the disappearance of commas. When things are written via speech to text, it almost never had any commas unless they say “comma”, and almost no one ever does. From there, I guess people just get used to not seeing commas, and even when they’re typing, commas don’t cross their mind.
It’s a pretty big pet peeve of mine, and I find it super frustrating to text with people who frequently used speech to text.
Yeah I never heard about them being usrd to signify pauses in speech. I’m not a native speaker but I think in general they are used to separate “sentences” (they have a verb and all that shit), interleaving sentences, and lists of items. Ofc there is a lot of nuance, for example, this sentence, and there are cases when commas should be left out (afaik). In my language I would always put a comma before “but” or “because” but in English it seems the words themselves separate the sentences. Anyway, shit is weird, English is very random.