Completely offensive sentence needs a grammar check

I think this sentence needs a comma or two ... maybe even a hyphen. It's totally offensive. If it makes you feel any better, the character doesn't fair well in the end.

Now the site had clean bathrooms complete with those extra large family style rooms where faggots could suck each other off or those weirdos who didn’t know if they were male or female could take a leak.

 

Depending on the flow of the surrounding content, I might very well leave it as is. At the most, I'd throw a comma in before "or those weirdos..."

 

AP Style says extra-large wants a hyphen. I tend to by hyphen-happy so I have to look those things up. Other than that, I agree with @Steerpike, maybe a comma after the or he mentions.

 

What @Steerpike said. Could be seen as syntactically ambiguous otherwise( I think ). The weirdos might find themselves getting a blow job when all they went in for was a pee!

 

Reads fine to me as it is, but would also read fine with a hyphen and comma. Depends what effect you're going for - I use these comma-less sentences when the speaking/narrating character is under some type of stress or high emotion, to give that breathless effect.

 

The extra large / extra-large I was fairly sure the hyphen should be in there but wanted to make sure. As for commas, I'm usually guessing at those but I think I'll go with your suggestion.

Thanks

 

Agreed on all counts!!

 

I (a person with dyslexia who struggles with reading) struggled to read that. A comma before the "or" would help a lot. I like commas.

So basically, "what they said".

 

Try this:

"Now the site had clean bathrooms complete with those extra-large family-style rooms where faggots could suck each other off, or where those weirdos who didn’t know if they were male or female could take a leak.

 

As above, and I just wanted to say I loved the thread title.

 

Just a something to consider. Obviously, this could be wrong because of the context of your story but it would make the sentence much shorter and probably eliminate the comma question. Take this with a grain of salt.

"Now the site had clean bathrooms complete with those extra large family style rooms where faggots could suck each other off or those weirdo trannies (or whatever other term) could take a leak."

Just a suggestion.

 

If commas are used to clarify meaning, it doesn't need any. If you're using them to indicate speech patterns, it will depend on the character's delivery.

 

I think the main thing is commas for rhythm and neatness, but also some meaning issues for some people.

 

Am I the only weirdo who thinks there should be a comma after rooms?

 

Nah I thought that too, but I tend to shower commas everywhere so I didn't say so...

 

You're not alone. I had the same thought but I'm not comfortable enough with my own grammar to offer that kind of advice.