People Twitter

9959 readers

968 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

Mark NSFW content.
No doxxing people.
Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
No bullying or international politcs
Be excellent to each other.
Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major figure or a politician. Archive.is the best way.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

SendMeYourTaTas@sh.itjust.works

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works

759

Thso whats (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 22 hours ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

87 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I like how someone who is making fun of another's literacy, did so with poor grammar.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You don't need that comma, bro.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What I've noticed is that most poor comma placement is because people forgot the leading one; "I like how someone , who is making fun of another’s literacy, did so with poor grammar."

It's astoundingly common, including (especially) amongst publications.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I buy that. It's not exactly a non-restrictive phrase in this case because the sentence "I like how someone did so with poor grammar." does not seem like the original intent. You can shoehorn that argument I suppose, but it certainly just looks more like an errant comma.

If I were to guess, I think OP thought they had an adverbial phrase (I think that's the right term) that needed to be set apart with a comma, but, in actual fact, it both was not and did not.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 points 15 hours ago

(granted, you did mention that you could shoehorn this but) I don't think a fragment of any sentence needs to have the sentence make sense if you remove the fragment; we jam fragments that are required to understand a sentence into all sorts of locations of sentences, all the time.

The honest answer is that we don't really have any hard rules about comma usage (as you point out, the sentence would work just as well without any commas), broadly, so people kind of just go vibes-based, most of the time.

I feel like "did so with poor grammar" very obviously doesn't feel like a tack on to a sentence (like, starting with a verb wouldn't make sense) so I'm inclined to disagree but I'm anal about comma placement so maybe the average person would.