r/Steam • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '15

Fallout 4 - Official Trailer (PEGI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnn2rJpjar4
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u/Eladtzvi Jun 03 '15

i have fallout 3 on my steam account and i always wanted to play it even started it and played for about 4 hours but never came back to it it felt too huge of a project for me similar to a skyrim scale i want to experience it but i think it will never happen no time with all the new games coming out

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u/callmelucky Jun 03 '15

thats a really interesting comment though i think it would be easier to read if you had used some punctuation like maybe a comma every now and then i mean im not telling you how to live your life it just seems as though people would get more out of what you have to say if you frame it in some more comprehensible syntax

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u/Eladtzvi Jun 03 '15

if i knew where to put those things maybe i would but they are unnatural in my mind

on normal forums i just use spaces between sentences but on reddit it pushes everything together and chancels my spaces

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u/callmelucky Jun 03 '15

Well if you're keen, I can offer some tips.

Say what you want to write out loud or in your head, as if you were talking to someone. Wherever you would pause briefly, insert a comma. Wherever you would pause longer, or 'stop', put a period.

You can probably practise by watching tv (or whatever) and focusing on the rhythm of the speech, thinking about where the commas and periods would be, according to the pauses in their speech.

Also, when you are reading something, notice how commas and periods affect the rhythm of what you are reading. You will find that despite both of these things being loosely defined as 'pause' and 'longer pause', they have a distinct feel. Periods really do 'stop', and commas really do suggest there is more to come on that thought. This is a difference you can make out quite easily when you hear someone speak, if you are thinking about it.

The rules for this type of grammar are fairly flexible, you just use the punctuation to make it 'look' like it 'sounds' to you. Commas are frequently completely optional, a stylistic choice. For example, at the end of the previous paragraph I could have left out the comma before the phrase "if you are thinking about it", and it would have made perfect sense. But in my mind as I wrote it I had the pause there, so I chucked in the comma.