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Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by tedunangst on Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:13PM (#10133555)
Those aren't comma splices because there aren't two independent clauses.
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Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by dctoedt on Friday August 28, 2015 @10:20AM (#10135540)
True -- is there a better term for the comma usage illustrated in the two Jane Austen quotes?
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Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by tedunangst on Friday August 28, 2015 @12:24PM (#10136330)
Superfluous, stylistic commas. Or superfluous stylistic commas if you prefer. Commas are inserted seemingly at random by some authors to control the pacing of a sentence. It's not necessarily wrong. btw, "confessions of a comma queen" in the new yorker may be an interesting read.
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