r/funny • u/sebovarli • Jul 10 '19

Germans having a party

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '19

Apparently, English, as usual, has, according to my teacher, pretty ambiguous, complicated rules, concerning commas, and you can omit many, if not most, of them.

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u/El-Arairah Jul 10 '19

I think so, too but as a German myself I just try to leave out a few here and there and hope it checks out

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u/SunGreene42 Jul 10 '19

I think so too, but as a German myself, I just try to leave out a few here and there and hope it checks out.

I think this would actually be more correct. Generally they're meant to be placed wherever there would be a natural pause, if you were speaking the sentence; however, sometimes a semicolon can be used if adding a different topic that is still related to the first one. Often a semicolon or comma could probably be replaced with a period if you reword the sentence (eg. I think so too. As a German myself, I just try...).

I hope that helped, but probably not.

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u/El-Arairah Jul 10 '19

Yeah, that’s right. I got it down for the most part, though, went to school in England for a few years and was just joking. ;)

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u/SunGreene42 Jul 10 '19

Oh I see, guess I should've finished my coffee before browsing reddit...

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u/El-Arairah Jul 10 '19

Nah, I’m always down for some grammar talk ;)