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"I bought a pen, its color is blue"Some grammar mavens would say that this sentence contains an error which is called a comma splice ( link). You might rewrite it one of three ways: 1. I bought a pen. Its color is blue. 2. I bought a pen; its color is blue. 3. I bought a pen, and its color is blue. JFTR, comma splices don't bother me, but they do bother English and ESL/EFL teachers I have known. I don't usually correct other people's typos or mistakes, but, in this case, it's for callithump's benefit.
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Didja hear what happened to the Blue pen?
...It blue up! hahaha...oh! Never mind. Suspire I'm so happy I red that. no, don't reply! it's a trap! Too late! This thread is already becoming coloured by polychromatic punishment! 
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Didja hear what happened to the Blue pen?
...It blue up! hahaha...oh! Never mind. Suspire I'm so happy I red that. no, don't reply! it's a trap! Too late! This thread is already becoming coloured by polychromatic punishment! Orange you glad there is a limited number of colors?
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Didja hear what happened to the Blue pen?
...It blue up! hahaha...oh! Never mind. Suspire I'm so happy I red that. no, don't reply! it's a trap! Too late! This thread is already becoming coloured by polychromatic punishment! Orange you glad there is a limited number of colors? You may be green in the unlimited world of colors.
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> comma splice
zmjehzd, that really sounds like something awful and unforgivable. I hope I'll never again write or copy such thing ! Comma splice! Ouch!
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perhaps you are relating it to the 'colon splice', which is sometimes a follow-up to the ever popular colonoscopy.
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perhaps you are relating it to the 'colon splice', which is sometimes a follow-up to the ever popular colonoscopy. OWWWWWW!!!
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"I bought a pen, its color is blue"Some grammar mavens would say that this sentence contains an error which is called a comma splice ( link). You might rewrite it one of three ways: 1. I bought a pen. Its color is blue. 2. I bought a pen; its color is blue. 3. I bought a pen, and its color is blue. JFTR, comma splices don't bother me, but they do bother English and ESL/EFL teachers I have known. I don't usually correct other people's typos or mistakes, but, in this case, it's for callithump's benefit. I'm all thumbs when it comes to splicing. I let my husband hande that sort of thing. Much safer.
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> comma splice
zmjehzd, that really sounds like something awful and unforgivable. I hope I'll never again write or copy such thing ! Comma splice! Ouch! I was thinking it sounds like something I learnt to do in the Scouts - where you pause half way through tying two ropes together and ask yourself why the heck you are doing this...
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Well, aren't you grateful by now you learned to ty ropes?
The comma splice does not only sound awful, it is als condemned.
(splice-free sentence??)
'It is condemned in The Elements of Style'
But the page is really instructive, zmjezhd.
(can't call you nuncle, being a naunt)
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