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TMK Stuff => Site Discussion => Topic started by: WarpRattler on March 25, 2007, 12:22:53 PM
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Sapph used a comma splice.
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No I didn't. It's a comma-splice when two complete sentences run together. The second part would've been a sentence fragment by itself, so a comma was appropriate.
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Deezer: I like the idea, but I think would be better for a station playing music from all Nintendo games.
Deezer forgot an "it," I do believe. Right here ^.
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"That reminds me, I think you missed the memo that you're fired, David."
"That reminds me." is a complete thought. "I think you missed the memo that you're fired, David." is a complete thought. Therefore, COMMA SPLICE.
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I've heard of karma police, but comma police?
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You know, it's stupid crap like this that makes us do mailbags less frequently.
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*groans at Deezer*
Anyway, the mailbag has gone down in quality, both in quality of Q&A stuff and in quality of usage of English (on both ends).
Does that thing about swearing at you in another language still hold true?
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"That reminds me." is not a complete thought. If you're using proper grammar, you have to be reminded of something.
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Perhaps "that" could be giving Sapph her mind back, therefore in some sense reminding her? Also, "that" is reminding her that she thinks David missed the memo, which she evidently forgot that she thought.
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I live with my friend That. Sometimes we're having so much I almost forget to go to my tuba lesson! That reminds me.
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"That", when used in the sense that Sapph was using it
in, is a pronoun. Also, LD, your friend That has a very strange name. Have you told him or her that?
Also, having so much what? Fun? Bacon?
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"That",
Commas go inside of quotes.
Redundant end of phrase preposition:
when used in the sense that Sapph was using it in
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Commas don't always go inside of quotes.
"Placement of commas within quotation marks is done when there are two clauses and one is dependent on the other."
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Standard American English places all commas inside of quotes. The source you cite is some random English student's term project, which doesn't even include an example of your usage.
EDIT: Actually, they do, and it reinforces my point:
In the last example, "Encounter at Farpoint," notice how Star Trek is italicized rather than enclosed in quotation marks.
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"'Standard' American English"? That's highly improbable. However, looking at one of Mr. Webster's books, I see that you are correct, so I will back down from this subject. I still have a question I asked previously, though...does that thing about swearing at you guys in another language still hold true?
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Oops, I forgot the fun.
But seriously,
That reminds me.
is a complete sentence - and one of the simplest forms of a sentence:
(Pro)Noun verb directObject.