Commas, or why I use them to editor's chagrin

Exactly.

And BTW, @big soft moose, if you were to clean up the SPaG in this post, I imagine you'd supply the apostrophe in "cobblers"! Hee.

 

That ain't what I read. Cockney rhyming slang, with the very important word "awls" left out. (I leave it to you to work out what word that rhymes with. lol)

 

There's a nascent nursery rhyme here somewhere.

Which witch hunt hunts which witch, or
That witch hunt which hunts witches which hunt witches.

Er...or something. Anyone channeling mother goose?

 

Actually not Mother Goose, but this made me think of that sentence English teachers sometimes deploy to show their young pupils how strange English is. The one which is just the word "buffalo" a bunch of times.

This one: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

 

Or the sentence that uses "and" five times in a row.

 

If it really is "a load of old cobbler's/cobblers..." surely there need to be more cobblers than one (otherwise it would be a pair of old cobbler's/cobblers), so it should be...

A load of old cobblers'...

Signed, UN Peace Envoy.

 

Close, and we may be married to the same woman.

Spoiler: Five ands in a row

A man decided to open a pub, and using all of his creativity and individuality, names it "Pig and Whistle". He hired a local sign painter, and told him what he wanted painted over the phone. When he got to the pub, however, the sign outside said:

PigandWhistle

with no spaces between any of the words. He grabbed the sign painter and said, "You idiot, you need to put a space between Pig and and, and and and Whistle!"

 

I am a coma nut. I use commas because it reminds me when a person is talking and takes a breath, but keeps on talking. We then do not use grammar words. It is my handicap to understand grammar. As I have said, I am a sentence nut and editor as well. If the reader can understand the writer, then the reader got what he/she wrote. Nothing against grammar, like a patient in a wheel chair, they use it instead if they cannot walk. Thoughts on my writing? Chat one

 

You're an editor? Is that what you said?

In English? That's not meant to be a criticism - your English is probably better than my writing in any language other than my own. But I think a better understanding of English grammar would definitely help with your communication skills.

 

You seem unclear on what grammar is. Of course you use grammar. Saying that you don't is like saying that you sing but you don't use a voice.

 

I am unable to understand verbs and nouns. I am trying to use sentence order within sentences and paragraphs instead of grammar, I do understand what it is to a point, which is very little. Chat one

 

I just found out sentence construction is grammar and I didn't understand it until now. I like editing which you call
critiquing. Thank you. Chat One

 

You are able. Everyone can understand anything. What you lack is either an explanation that helps you (in which case, keep looking and asking), or motivation.

If you lack motivation, then feel free to ignore this stuff. What's a phrasal noun? An auxiliary verb? Verb conjugation? Don't pretend, though, that you're incapable. That's deliberate ignorance without even the balls to admit it.

 

That's deliberate ignorance without even the balls to admit it. Then I am ignorant, beside I forget my user name as well. writing one

 

I forget my user name is writing one
I said Chat one

 

Commas are nothing to do with taking breaths.

 

Well, in singing, sometimes. Not always. But better on them than in the middle of a phrase. lol