MudMan@kbin.socialtoUnited Kingdom@feddit.uk•Death and disappearance of British volunteers in Ukraine exposes rivalry in foreign legion. Comrades fear two men may have been killed not by Russians but by fellow foreign soldiers.
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1 year agoNo, I didn’t. I don’t know who teaches people that commas represent small pauses in speech, but they’re not helping.
That’s what the ellipsis is for. If you want to correctly do fake Shatner you do
“This… means… that, Mr. Spock”.
That’s where the comma should go, by the way. You use it to separate the vocative. I had to use a period in the incorrect sentence above just to avoid the redundancy with the incorrect ones splitting the verb from the subject and the object.
I was ready to be mad at you for making me google it, but it turned out to be the same iusnaturalist bullcrap that was already centuries out of date when I studied that stuff and had memory holed, so… meh.
Fond memories of my college years, though. Feeling young and smart and so, so intellectually superior by pointing and laughing at those guys because back then we all thought things were mostly going to get better looking forward. Good times.