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Darnell Washington· Mar 22
I've been noticing more and more published writers using comma splices deliberately—not as mistakes, but as stylistic choices to create breathless, stream-of-consciousness effects. Are we witnessing the evolution of punctuation rules, or just editors getting lazy?
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