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I've had my 3 genie wishes planned out since I was a kid, but I'm starting to think if I can use a lot of commas in each wish I should be able to squeeze them down to 2 and use my 3rd one to wish for everyone who self-censors internet images or post titles to burst into flame.
Beaten to death with a giant asterisk.
In this economy? Burying the bodies would bankrupt half their families. I haven't heard anything about spontaneous human combustion in decades now, and it's time we get that back in the news.
I did it the other day. It was very refreshing
Oh, wow. Did you do it that way where you just totally disappear and no one ever sees you again but there's a charred outline on your bed in the shape of your body and somehow it managed to just barely char the mattress and bedding without burning it up entirely?
It's been on my bucket list forever, but it's still something I haven't gotten around to trying yet.
that's quite a whoopsie doodle. how did your sandals hold up?
At least in English, commas aren't magic sentence separators; you might wish to look into the semicolon for joining independent clauses.
They can be used similar to parentheticals to break up large, complex thoughts and format them as a single sentence. Legally and historically that is often how the comma was used, and it is grammatically correct usage.
I suppose it depends upon said genie's views on prescriptivism, heh.