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The comma splice epidemic in contemporary prose

Mar 22·0m·1 message

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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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