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Re: counting commas



On 2024-01-19, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+0000), debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
>> Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > I won, and you lost
>> 
>> There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in
>> the closely related expression "I won, you lost."
>
> That's rather proscriptive. "I won and you lost." and
> "I won, and you lost." are two different sentences.
>

AFAIK, "you lost" is an independent clause and should be separated from
the independent clause that precedes it with a comma before the
coordinating conjunction.


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