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"Turns out we're both teachers." Posts a 90 word run on sentence.
We are all doomed.
You can write a whole book with just one sentence if the sentence is right-branching. Run-on sentence "rule" is more of an advice for beginners.
alright so sometimes people write things incorrectly to convey emotions. Run on sentences imo express exasperation and absurdity much better than proper sentencing.
It's a perfectly good and legible sentence and conveys people having an excited conversation. It gives you no break.
Lemmy users when someone's creative writing uses slightly incorrect or unconventional grammar for stylistic effect:
These replies are mega cope. It's not slightly incorrect, just incorrect or very lazy. It's mentally exhausting to try and read this way, and they do not capitalize beginning of their 'sentences', nor 'I', etc.
Writing in this way does not make one come off as the next e. e. cummings, they just look very uneducated.
It only takes only a few punctuation marks to make it grammatically correct. Noticably not a single full stop is missing, so it's not even a run-on sentence in the classical sense. This is closer to a stylistic device called 'stream of consciousness'.
Or are you bothered that the sentence is long? In that case I got bad news about classical literature for you, you better stay clear of the likes of Thomas Mann
Because it's hard to read...
"And" is perfectly valid punctuation.
Tbh, just because I'm capable of writing well, doesn't mean I always do, especially online. If OOP is an english teacher it's a bit concerning since not making it a run-on sentence would just be better storytelling, but otherwise eh.