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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma

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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma	comment	Describe: Wanton Cruelty. to-the' Common...!Comma; here, Sometimes, a particular convention, grammar, or usage glitch will kill a viewer's Willing Suspension of Disbelief, driving them straight out of the text they're reading. This trope is all about those sorts of glitches. Notwithstanding the name of this trope, it applies equally to all punctuation; whether it's crushing a colon, squeezing a semicolon, dividing a slash, interrogating a question mark, or bullying a period, all misuse and disrespect of punctuation is included here. Named for Sam Vimes' description of one of the distinguishing features of Captain Carrot's writing. Related to Rouge Angles of Satin, and most definitely a Berserk Button of any Grammar Nazi. No Punctuation Period and Tenses are subtropes, as is Punctuation Changes the Meaning. Compare with You No Take Candle, when there are errors in the grammar instead of the punctuation, but can easily overlap with this trope, and Punctuation Shaker where random punctuation is inserted to make language look exotic and/or alien. Please try to avoid sounding like a Grammar Nazi when adding examples. Remember also, for the purpose of keeping oneself sane, that language, especially English, changes throughout time. What you think is a mistake may soon become so common that it is the norm, and in twenty years your descendants will be correcting you for doing it the old way. Try not to slap them for it. Self-demonstrating examples are alright, but please, for the sake of readability, try not to go overboard.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_14f0b02	comment	Justified in Flowers for Algernon, in which the narrator's grammar starts off terribly, then improves and then declines in tandem with fluctuations in his intellect. Charlie's two entries after Alice teaches him punctuation are overflowing with it. The next one contains a breakthrough as he's finally using punctuation properly. "Today, I learned, the comma, this a comma (,) a period, with a tail, Miss Kinnian, says its important, because, it makes writing, better, she said, somebody, could lose, a lot of money, if a comma, isnt, in the, right place, I dont have, any money, and I dont see, how a comma, keeps you, from losing it,". In the next entry, he's passed beyond the comma and sticks a different punctuation mark after almost every word he writes.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_1ae24caa	comment	In the Battletoads games, the combat amphibians of the title are called "'Toads" for short, since just calling them "toads" wouldn't be proper enough.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_1fc7499e	comment	Also in Reaper Man: "Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_218f1c6	comment	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang features a grammar joke with a call back. First Harmony explains to Harry the difference between "feeling bad" and "feeling badly." Later on Harry tries to belittle "Gay" Perry using the same rule, but Perry's usage is correct, as he instantly points out:
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_24784bcf	comment	The title character's father in Moone Boy is a sign-maker. In one episode, he argues briefly with a customer who insists on a sign for "BED'S" (though acknowledging that he does have a spare apostrophe lying around).
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_27a322a	comment	Sandra Cisneros didn't use any quotation marks in The House on Mango Street.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_2e97466d	comment	For some reason this error is particularly common in Japan. Thus video games have received titles such as Y's,note only the Sega Master System version of game 1, fortunately 8 Eye's, Pig's and Bomber's, Ninja Master's and Steam Heart's. While the title of Ninja Princess is free of such spurious apostrophes, its beginning screen does say "Princess'es Adventure Starts."
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_2fc1b0a1	comment	According to one Tumblr post,◊ in one AOL group chat, everyone was making Homer Simpson faces (like so: (8^(\|)) and a girl named Crystal forgot to add the nose, resulting in one group chat member saying "You forgot the nose crystal". Because that user forgot to put a comma between "nose" and "Crystal", they were booted from the chat for saying "nose crystal", which led AOL to believe they were selling drugs to minors.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_303fd5df	comment	"Walkin' Away" by Diamond Rio has the obvious error in the line "These occasional moments of weakness only makes our love more strong."
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_310ea255	comment	This is responsible for many, many Cake Wrecks, be it eye-searingly awful misspellings or horrible punctuation.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_356792b7	comment	Lampooning this is how Lynne Truss made her name.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_379ca4d2	comment	GÃ¶tz and Meyer by David Albahari uses no paragraph breaks, apparently to indicate the narrator's mental breakdown.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_3a64aba3	comment	Shantae makes the "its/it's" blunder a few times. It wouldn't be too noticeable or jarring if it didn't crop up in the message that appears every time you find a baby Warp Squid.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal: "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUKERS!" It was................................. Dumbledore! Let's just say everything in My Immortal and call it a day.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_3d0180fa	comment	The Pink Panther: "Le Quiet Squad," an Inspector story in Pink Panther #5 (Gold Key, April, 1972) and a loose adaptation of the short subject of the same name, has the Inspector charged with keeping things quiet while his ill boss, the Commissioner, rests. Sgt. Deux Deux bursts in, slamming the door:
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_3d5c05c9	comment	Bob the Angry Flower rants against misuse of apostrophes in this comic.◊
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_3f562c5	comment	Two Weeks Notice. It looks much better as the correct Two Weeks' Notice.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_3f633fb4	comment	Some older Cracked articles are missing the "s" after possessive apostrophes. This is due to a technical glitch rather than poor writing, but it still makes some of the site' articles hard to read.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall uses extra punctuation in the middle of sentences to indicate pauses in the speech of a robot running at a lower clock speed than usual.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld In Maskerade, a character's growing madness is shown by his insistence on using multiple exclamation points. It's essentially writing out an Evil Laugh. Also in Reaper Man: "Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind." Then there's Terry Pratchett's exten'sion (in Going Po'stal) of the ca'se of the greengrocer's apo'strophe, where a character who happen's to be a greengrocer ha's dialogue with 'superfluou's apo'strophe's next to each S. It i's mos't amu'sing. And the origin of this trope's name: Captain Carrot, who like all good dwarfs writes home to the old mine on a regular basis — he also treats punctuation rather like a game of pin the tail on the donkey. And when swearing in new recruits to the Watch, he dictates the oath precisely down to the punctuation, leading to phrases such as "I swear by open bracket insert recruit's deity of choice here close bracket" (the less bright recruits then follow suit). There Is Also The Text Gag Of Golems Talking Like So, Which Is The Visual Effect For Each Word Thudding Into Place Like A Stone Block.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_469771d2	comment	In The Powerpuff Girls story "Smart and Smarter," Blossom breaks down an attack manuever to a geometric science, but the term "cosign" is used instead of the more apropos "cosine."
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_498b77e9	comment	In the Skin Horse storyline "Mixed-Up Files", when Sweetheart is undercover as a mad scientist captured by the Institute, they give her a Demotivational Poster that says "Sanity — It's not a journey, its a destination". When she says the missing apostrophe bothers her, it's replaced with one that says "Sanity — Its not a journey, it's a destination", and later "Sanity — Its not a journey, its a destination". This is entirely deliberate, because the Institute are monsters.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_4a94a5fc	comment	In Maskerade, a character's growing madness is shown by his insistence on using multiple exclamation points. It's essentially writing out an Evil Laugh.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_4add89df	comment	In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie, when learning how to punctuate, scatters punctuation all over that day's letter. The next day he apologizes.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_4bcaa9d6	comment	Triptych Continuum: In Triptych: Referenced by name, as Rainbow hasn't quite mastered the art of paragraphs. Or punctuation. Or... pretty much everything else. Coordinator's attempt to gather blackmail material makes him the first pony to read her entire manuscript, suffering migraines accordingly.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_4bcdb0e6	comment	Krazy Kat. Along with some minor Xtreme Kool Letterz, many nouns would end up in quotation marks. This is not limited to Krazy's Funetik Aksent.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_4c44acb7	comment	Occasionally used by the chairman on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue to appear to be uncharacteristically positive about the games, for instance.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_4c4e08ca	comment	Implied (because we didn't see it written, only heard it pronounced) in a The Benny Hill Show skit by an actress who persisted in reading lines such as "What's that in the road ahead?" as "What's that in the road, a head?" or "What is this thing called love?" as "What is this thing called, Love?"
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_4d30cecb	comment	In The Road Runner cartoon "Lickety Splat," the coyote is employing a boomerang where on the package it reads "Return's to Sender."
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_4e588869	comment	MrDrake's Darwin's Soldiers stories can sound like this. An example (one sentence!):
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Most of the speaking cast in Homestuck commit minor grammatical sins when typing to each other via IM. The only one of the four main characters who uses completely standard grammar is Rose, though her text has... other issues. The other three kids neglect capitalization (and, in Dave's case, punctuation) and the trolls each have their own typing quirks, from Gamzee's aLtErNaTiNg cApS to Terezi's C4PSLOCK3D 413 133T. Considering that it carries over into spoken dialogue, many of the grammatical sins are representative of the characters' voices. For instance, Kanaya Pronounces Her Words Very Precisely, Karkat IS GRUMPY AND SHOUTS A LOT, and Sollux (who replace2 the letter s wiith 2 and double2 up ii'2) has a lisp. Its Stylistic Suck-laden subcomic Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, on the other hand, has random syntax, which the author likens to a "window into a defective mind". It especially seems to.......................ABUSER ellipses and CARPS LOCK Perhaps fortunately, most of the Alpha kids in Act 6 communicate in perfect English, albeit with certain oddities such as Jake's bizarre infusion of profanity and slang into the speech patterns of upper-class 1920s London... except for Roxy, whose spelling and punctuation go downhill at meteoric rates when she's hammered — which is most of the time. And even sober, she skips out on capitalization and punctuation and peppers her dialogue with chatspeak and tyops. *typos
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_50bcf7a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_50bcf7a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Homestuck (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_50bcf7a6
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5286ec36	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5286ec36	comment	Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The title is a question, but there is no question mark. Supposedly it wasn't included because question marks are considered "bad luck" in the film industry. The lack of punctuation implies that the title is an answer, not a question. That is, "the person 'who framed Roger Rabbit'."
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5286ec36	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5286ec36	featureConfidence	1.0
Who Framed Roger Rabbit	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5286ec36
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_52dd4a4c	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Marvel: Speech Bubbles in general tend to be printed in ALL CAPS. The Ultimates specifically doesn't do that.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_52dd4a4c	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_52dd4a4c	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultimate Marvel (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_52dd4a4c
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5307b01d	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5307b01d	comment	Penny Arcade sometimes has an animated period reading posts from gaming forums and chiding the writers for their lack of capitalization and other grammatical errors.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5307b01d	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5307b01d	featureConfidence	1.0
Penny Arcade (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5307b01d
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_55868d41	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_55868d41	comment	Frisky Dingo had Killface become enraged when his new postcards proclaiming his goal of subjugating humanity (he had a tight budget) came in, and read "Welcome To You're 'Doom!'"
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_55868d41	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_55868d41	featureConfidence	1.0
Frisky Dingo	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_55868d41
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5755b96a	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5755b96a	comment	Eugene Greenhilt from The Order of the Stick gives the prophecy, "When the goat turns red strikes true.'' This, Roy interprets it as having a comma after "red" and thinks it means that when the chimera (which has a goat head) getting blood on it, Belkar will strike true and kill it. In reality the comma is after "turns" and means that when Nale (who has a goatee) turns on them Haley (who has red hair) would be able to roll a 20 and hit Nale.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5755b96a	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5755b96a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5755b96a
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5afbc0cb	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5afbc0cb	comment	In Undertale, the word-search Sans tries to use to stump the player is headlined with "Hey Kid's!" Since the rest of the game uses correct punctuation, it's definitely intentional.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5afbc0cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5afbc0cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Undertale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5afbc0cb
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5d354f8	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5d354f8	comment	Marie Birch, infamous figure in Red Dwarf internet fandom from the '90s. Known for putting, unnecessary commas, in all her fan fictions, like this, and, her fan fictions, were awful, to begin with.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5d354f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5d354f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Dwarf	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5d354f8
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5db85d4	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5db85d4	comment	The subtitles of Limbo of the Lost are wrong. All of them.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5db85d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5db85d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Limbo of the Lost (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5db85d4
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5e11dafe	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5e11dafe	comment	Chopping Block: Butch does not appreciate incorrect punctuation (here, the "greengrocers' apostrophe").
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5e11dafe	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5e11dafe	featureConfidence	1.0
Chopping Block (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_5e11dafe
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_60e46926	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_60e46926	comment	Same thing about movie / TV series parodies in MAD.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_60e46926	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_60e46926	featureConfidence	1.0
MAD (Magazine)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_60e46926
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_66a1dcea	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_66a1dcea	comment	Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. While punctuation errors are the least of its problems, whoever was in charge of the game's font apparently considered certain punctuation marks such as apostrophes far too exotic, and therefore they were replaced with a square symbol.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_66a1dcea	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_66a1dcea	featureConfidence	1.0
Tomb Raider (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_66a1dcea
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_686cfaba	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_686cfaba	comment	The latest interview from Steve Perry, formerly of Journey. Dear GODS, cruelty to the common ellipse, lack of any punctuation, and the hideous color scheme make this one un-readable interview.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_686cfaba	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_686cfaba	featureConfidence	1.0
Journey (Band) (Music)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_686cfaba
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_68959735	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_68959735	comment	The English translation of Suikoden II is absolutely notorious for punctuation abuse. Multiple question marks or exclamation points, ellipses that stretch out into infinity, oddly-placed commas - and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Certain characters - like Nanami and Luca, who are both prone to very strong displays of emotion - get hit especially bad with it in their dialogue.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_68959735	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_68959735	featureConfidence	1.0
Suikoden II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_68959735
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_6cb2d709	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_6cb2d709	comment	Harry Potter fanfic writers take note: in J.K. Rowling's books, the word Muggle is always and without exception capitalized. The same goes for most wizarding vocabulary, with only words that already in common usage (such as "wizard", "broomstick" and "unicorn") not being so. Note that this does not follow normal English rules, as "Muggle" is a descriptive term not derived from a nationality. It was merely a deliberate stylistic choice on Rowling's part.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_6cb2d709	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_6cb2d709	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_6cb2d709
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7035855e	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7035855e	comment	Exist Archive: Ellipses are usually written likeâ€¦ this (space after) or like â€¦ this (space before and after). This game writes them likeâ€¦this (no space before or after). And the dialogue hasâ€¦a lot of ellipses.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7035855e	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7035855e	featureConfidence	1.0
Exist Archive (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7035855e
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_71447ee	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_71447ee	comment	There are a lot of comma splices in Knowledge is Power. As one reviewer put it: "I think someone once told [the author] not to write ten sentences where one would suffice and he misinterpreted it."
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_71447ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_71447ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Knowledge Is Power (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_71447ee
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_74365738	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_74365738	comment	Then there's Terry Pratchett's exten'sion (in Going Po'stal) of the ca'se of the greengrocer's apo'strophe, where a character who happen's to be a greengrocer ha's dialogue with 'superfluou's apo'strophe's next to each S. It i's mos't amu'sing.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_74365738	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_74365738	featureConfidence	1.0
Going Postal	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_74365738
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7579423f	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7579423f	comment	The original Banjo-Kazooie is lousy with comma splices. Fortunately, they're all but completely gone from the sequel.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7579423f	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7579423f	featureConfidence	1.0
Banjo-Kazooie (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7579423f
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_76a23d50	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_76a23d50	comment	Four Walking Disasters: Without exception, the dialogue is written with a period between the dialogue and the dialogue tag, instead of the more correct comma. Like this: "This is an example sentence." Harry noted.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_76a23d50	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_76a23d50	featureConfidence	1.0
Four Walking Disasters (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_76a23d50
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7899c84f	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7899c84f	comment	As Adrian Mole believes himself to be the greatest writer that ever lived, he has a lot to say about punctuation: "The exclamation marks give me some pain", on a note from Bianca where every sentence ends with an exclamation mark. He himself uses a string of exclamation marks, writing "My mother is pregnant! My mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sharon Bott is a virtual stranger to the comma and the full stop, and probably thinks a semi-colon is a partial removal of the intestines. Adrian's excuse for struggling to write the recipe book Offally Good. His mother ends up writing the book for him.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7899c84f	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7899c84f	featureConfidence	1.0
Adrian Mole	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7899c84f
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7aaf9e41	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: The Mad Hatter as written by Jeph Loeb speaks in aLterNATinG cAPs.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7aaf9e41	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7aaf9e41	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7aaf9e41
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7fc78282	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7fc78282	comment	A rare in-universe example in The Lord of the Rings when the company was held up in front of the Mines of Moria where they thought the doors read "Speak, friend, and enter" where it should have been translated as "Say 'friend' and enter." It helps that Elvish doesn't use much punctuation, including quotation marks. In the books, Gandalf eventually realizes his error, comparing it to a riddle that is simple when you know the answer. In the film, it's Frodo who figures out what the door actually means, calling it a riddle flat-out. Of course, it seems like all the riddle is testing is your ability to read Elvish, since the riddle could also be solved by simply reading the text aloud without translation.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7fc78282	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7fc78282	featureConfidence	1.0
The Lord of the Rings	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_7fc78282
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_84319a6c	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_84319a6c	comment	Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts: "Christmas in Kansas": An in-universe example: Clark Kent's favorite soda as a child was a local brand called "Tuckers Straw'berry Cream". At the end of the fic, Bruce Wayne buys the rights and recipe and puts it back into production as a gift to Clark, but insists on correcting the punctuation. "That apostrophe was a menace to society."
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_84319a6c	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_84319a6c	featureConfidence	1.0
Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_84319a6c
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_846267c2	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_846267c2	comment	In Paper Towns, Margo capitalizes random letters in a shopping list because "the rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle". It becomes a plot point later as Q identifies her as the writer of an anonymous post because of the random capitalization.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_846267c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_846267c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Paper Towns	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_846267c2
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_87f2d9f8	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_87f2d9f8	comment	The Mass Effect series is notable for avoiding the pitfalls of miscapitalization in relation to species names. Unlike most sci-fi, all the races in the game are written with lower-case letters (e.g. asari, turian, krogan).
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_87f2d9f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_87f2d9f8	featureConfidence	1.0
MassEffect	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_87f2d9f8
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_884b3eb6	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_884b3eb6	comment	A good example of an unintentional spoken example occurs in the final scene of Big Daddy, when Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) tells the guests at his birthday party, "Let's go eat everybody!" Presumably, Sonny didn't believe that Hooters was a restaurant for cannibals.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_884b3eb6	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_884b3eb6	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Daddy	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_884b3eb6
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_89fd748e	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_89fd748e	comment	In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other works of Lewis Carroll, "ca'n't", "sha'n't" and "wo'n't" have two apostrophes. He insisted that "the popular usage is wrong." This is probably a joke about how a word like "shan't" abbreviates both the LL and the O in "shall not," so he's humorously asserting that his strange-looking abbreviations are more correct.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_89fd748e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_89fd748e
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d80b1f7	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d80b1f7	comment	Radio Active featured various parodies of radio dramas in which the actors completely misread lines because of punctuation errors in the scripts. Perhaps one of the most memorable examples occurred in a detective drama:
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d80b1f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d80b1f7	featureConfidence	1.0
KYTV	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d80b1f7
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d817ccb	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d817ccb	comment	One of the crackpots who is responsible for dozens of hoaxes when it comes to Lost spoilers is named ThEmIsFiTiShErE. What's worse is that, in his posts, he puts certain, random, often unimportant words in all-caps, making the reader just want to stab him in the face after a while. He also can't spell for crap.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d817ccb	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d817ccb	featureConfidence	1.0
Lost	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d817ccb
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d81bb26	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d81bb26	comment	In an episode of NCIS, Abby and McGee discuss a problem with a lawyer's website header that makes her name ambiguous. One has to wonder how a lawyer as good as the one in the episode could pay such poor attention to such a basic detail.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d81bb26	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d81bb26	featureConfidence	1.0
NCIS	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d81bb26
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d85e141	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d85e141	comment	Veep: During the Nevada recount in the fifth season, officials review a ballot with no vote but has "Fuck Selina Meyer" written over it. Selina's team is able to have the ballot counted for them by claiming the voter's intent was to say, "Fuck, Selina Meyer!"
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d85e141	featureApplicability	1.0
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Veep	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8d85e141
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8dd0bbcc	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	There's a particularly disconcerting example of run-on sentences in the final book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, being well over two hundred words about the metaphor "in the dark", ballerinas, digging and a locked cabinet.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8dd0bbcc	featureConfidence	1.0
A Series of Unfortunate Events	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_8dd0bbcc
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9175542a	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9175542a	comment	The dialogue in the original Ecco the Dolphin and its sequel Tides of Time is rather lacking in punctuation. It took until Defender of the Future, a reboot, to finally have correctly punctuated dialogue. Given that the level transition screens use punctuation correctly, the under-punctuation may be for conveying a xenofiction-like feel. The characters in these games are non-humanoid, after all. Commas are very rare in both of those games, albeit commas are more common in Tides of Time than in the original. Periods are virtually non-existent in the first game's dialogue. Tides of Time does use periods in dialogue, but they are extremely rare.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9175542a	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9175542a	featureConfidence	1.0
Ecco the Dolphin (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9175542a
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_924b6d63	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_924b6d63	comment	The Playstation game Xenogears was quite "fond" of using "quotes" placed around various "words."
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_924b6d63	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_924b6d63	featureConfidence	1.0
Xenogears (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_924b6d63
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9e7f8a9c	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9e7f8a9c	comment	In The Boys (also by Garth Ennis), Hughie reads a comic book out loud: "an' he's goin'... I hope this hurts —in bold— every bit as much —in bold— as what you did —in bold— to that boy —in bold... Why do they do that anyway? It's really annoyin' trynna read it, it makes it like stop-start, stop-start, stop-start, you know?"
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9e7f8a9c	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9e7f8a9c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Boys (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9e7f8a9c
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9f89a5f0	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9f89a5f0	comment	If you're writing a PokÃ©mon fic, make sure to put the names of PokÃ©mon in caps. Otherwise half of the PokÃ©mon-fic-reading population will stop in their tracks when reading over a sentence like "The pikachu fell on the ground, spiral-eyed". The other half, on the other hand, have it the opposite way.
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9f89a5f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9f89a5f0	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_9f89a5f0
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_a49a890c	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_a49a890c	comment	A mildly famous scene from Preacher: "Improper use of inverted commas, Hoover! Improper use of inverted commas!!"◊
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_a49a890c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Preacher (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_a49a890c
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_aadcf5f1	comment	Toyed with in Vinge's novel Rainbows End, which may or may not be missing an apostrophe depending on your political views.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_aca7b22d	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_aca7b22d	comment	In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Shippening", one of the stories Gumball writes in the Reality Warping notebook contains these.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ad283518	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ad283518	comment	Private Eye columnist Glenda Slagg is a parody of this (amongst other things). All of her sentences end with at least one exclamation or question mark and by the end of an article she is using several of each mixed together.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_af60702d	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_af60702d	comment	The Legend of Zelda — among other issues — seems to be just way too in love with quotation marks and seems to hate commas for the intro text (the capitalization is more understandable as they may not have had a lowercase character set):
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_b369b23a	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_b369b23a	comment	Dope ends with a very ironic grammar error. The main character delivers a self-empowering speech to the camera in which he brags about getting straight A's and a near-perfect SAT score. In the end, he says, "Why do I want to go to Harvard? If I was white, would you even need to ask me that question?" The camera lingers on the last line, written out on his college application essay. He should have said "If I were white" because he's using the subjunctive mood. A straight-A Harvard applicant really ought to know that.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_b56da2f8	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_b56da2f8	comment	Capitalizing Random Words actually has an effect on how you can Read them (pausing before the word and emphasizing the capitalized word), as well as the Sense you derive from them (you can actually cause the reader to perceive a different lexical entry, even a different pronunciation: lima, Lima). This makes certain Capital Letters very useful in certain Contexts, but obviously suffers from overuse as much as the next writing Convention.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ba1083f7	comment	Guitar Hero: Smash Hits would be guilty of using quotation marks for emphasis, if they had actually used quotation marks rather than the offending apostrophes.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ba44f5d5	comment	The Shelters of Stone, the fifth book in Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series, is filled with comma splices.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_bb50b512	comment	"The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck in His Craw", a Homestar cartoon done in the style of The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest, deliberately abuses Said Bookism as part of a parody of cheesy children's books.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_c43df4d8	comment	Or A Dalek.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_c6b527e9	comment	Used intentionally in The Dog Stars. Higs's narration uses idiosyncratic punctuation, often putting periods mid-sentence to give the words a halting, staccato rhythm. Other times it uses comma splicing or forgoes punctuation completely to make sentences run together. Higs is both a poet and cracking up from loneliness After the End, so the style conveys his lyrical spirit and deteriorating mental state.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_c720f71e	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_c720f71e	comment	And God forbid it when someone both uses parentheses within parentheses and doesn't close them. (Honestly, this is the most annoying thing ever. (This is bad enough on places like YouTube (Less forgivable on conversation-based sites like forums.)
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_c75605f9	comment	As with any rule, underuse of commas can still be done right. The Great Gatsby is notorious for its lack of them, and considering that Fitzgerald spent hours choosing individual words, it's unlikely that he left any commas out by accident. Although he did make a few errors in his word choice (referring to the retina as a visible part of the eye, for example), so it's still possible.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire: heroin junkie Bubbles makes a sign on his mobile depot reading "Bubble's Depo". There's also a Running Gag of legal professionals griping about the terrible written grammar of police officers.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_cea24823	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_cea24823	comment	James Joyce' Ulysses has a final chapter with only two full stops. Also, Joyce refused to capitalize religious words (jew, christian, jesuit) and hated quotation marks, instead using a dash to indicate a line of dialogue.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d1fbfbbc	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	The Twilight Saga series by Stephenie Meyer contains a copious amount of errors: Run-on sentences, poor punctuation and comma abuse, lack of capitalization, and fragments but a few examples.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d31cdea	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: There's a joke that Catching Fire and Mockingjay are written almost entirely in sentence fragments. Of course, this is a poorly-educated, emotionally jaded teenage girl narrating.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d4fe0006	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d4fe0006	comment	Ed: Played for drama. The entire chain of events that lead to the titular character moving back to Stuckeyville began with him misplacing a comma in a contract. We never get to see the phrasing, but it apparently cost his employer 1.6 million dollars, and Ed his job.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d57d722e	comment	There are not one, but two greengrocers' apostrophes in the dialogue near the end of the otherwise well-written Ōkami.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d6677b9	comment	One Mafalda strip has Manolito seeing an ad for "Cigar's" and believing that Americanizing products by inserting an apostrophe-S after every noun is trendy now.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d7765410	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d7765410	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy uses an in-universe example. The Guide mistakenly, well chooses, to use the more aesthetically pleasing "Ravenous Bugblatter beasts often make a good meal for visiting tourists" in place of the grammatically correct "Ravenous Bugblatter beasts often make a good meal of visiting tourists".
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d7c4626a	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_d7c4626a	comment	The Sandman (1989): As pointed out above in the capitalization section, Delirium frequently misuses capital letters. She also tends to go without commas and periods sometimes when she's rambling. Justified somewhat in that she's the Anthropomorphic Personification of, well, delirium.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_dbdd3424	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_dbdd3424	comment	Phantom Doctrine: The perk Example-made (killing an enemy reduces the stats of nearby enemies) might be better punctuated as Example: made.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ddc476b4	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ddc476b4	comment	Once on the GameFAQs television message board, someone made a topic asking "are there only fools and horses on american tv?". There was a lot of confusion and bafflement that someone would believe this before it was finally pointed out that Only Fools and Horses is the name of a television show.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_df4d64cb	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_df4d64cb	comment	Every other sentence in In This World and the Next is a comma splice, it gets very annoying very quickly, in the dialogue it reads as though everyone is hyperventilating.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_df7efc29	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_df7efc29	comment	Mi Tru Lov contains many examples of this, including this gem at the start of chapter 10:
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_e179ec3a	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_e179ec3a	comment	Calvin & Hobbes: The Series struggles with this, especially in its earlier seasons - it's most notable whenever Swing123 takes the helm. "Dr. BrainChill Part 1", in particular, is insane with its exclamation point usage.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_e25322af	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: Strong Bad takes every chance he can get to mock spelling and puncutation mistakes made by senders of Strong Bad Email. "The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck in His Craw", a Homestar cartoon done in the style of The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest, deliberately abuses Said Bookism as part of a parody of cheesy children's books.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_e4f2d161	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_e4f2d161	comment	Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden uses Stylistic Suck for comedic value by deliberately trying to pass itself off as a poorly translated Japanese game. Part of this "bad translation" involves pluralizing "gun" as "gun's". This even extends to the name of the development studio, Tales of Game's.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_e5964cdb	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_e5964cdb	comment	Two question marks may be acceptable to some, to convey a certain tone of confusion and incredulity. Chess annotations often use them to indicate major tactical blunders.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ea377bc0	comment	Shodan from System Shock speaks in alternating caps.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_eaeeea9b	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_eaeeea9b	comment	The subtitles during the final cinematic of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty suffer from a severe lack of commas.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ec80dae4	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ec80dae4	comment	Zero Punctuation is called that because the creator speaks very fast and without pauses, in the manner of someone reading a document without any punctuation. Mercifully, his articles are not written this way. He's also fond of pronouncing unnecessary umlauts like the one present in BrÃ¼tal Legend.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ef7b3325	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: Comic Book/DOCTORDOOM possesses the power to speak all in BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS. This has been noticed and commented on by other characters besides the ususal Meta Guy's.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_ef894e37	comment	One episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend involves a night club called either Spiders or Spider's - they're apparently not consistent with punctuation on their ads, leading Rebecca to muse about whether it's supposed to be a club that belongs to a spider ("Spider's") or a club infested with spiders ("Spiders"). Eventually we see the sign in front of the club and it reads Spider's.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f01be35d	comment	John Norman, he of the Gor series of novels, is quite content to overuse the comma; nay, even more, the semicolon; rather than using periods to separate his thoughts he will use the semicolon; it is annoying; you start to count the number of semicolons in a paragraph; often his page long paragraphs will be only one or two sentences long; he will use semicolons; this is especially true of his descriptive paragraphs.
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Gor	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f01be35d
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f06707a7	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f06707a7	comment	Stephen Donaldson can be pretty inconsistent when it comes to italization, especially when it comes to the names of various peoples and creatures. In The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, you'll have Haruchai and Elohim next to Ramen, Ranyhyn and Insequent.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f349915b	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f349915b	comment	"Certain" Dragonlance writers seem to be deathly afraid of conjunctions and skip right to the comma.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f6384958	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f6384958	comment	On The Electric Company (1971) there was a courtroom skit where a man was being prosecuted for trespassing on private property and fishing in a pond that had a "No Fishing" sign. The owner of the property shows the court the sign, which says "Private Property No Fishing Allowed." The defendant said that because there was no punctuation on the sign, he interpreted it to read "Private Property? No, Fishing Allowed."
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The Electric Company (1971)	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f6384958
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f9a8358a	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f9a8358a	comment	Defection: Given this Web Serial Novel's start as something to work on in-between chapters of the author's main work, the first few chapters are utterly horrid to the grammar conscious mind.
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Defection	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_f9a8358a
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_fb8549c	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_fb8549c	comment	Deadpool lampshaded his own overuse of the ellipsis by announcing he was "talking like...Shatner".
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_fbf33963	comment	After Inception came out, a debate was started on the livejournal comm on which would make grammatical sense: Eames' Totem? Or Eames's Totem? Two pages of fierce debate later, and the conclusion seems to be... both.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_fcc32267	comment	Subverted with the title of Childrens Hospital - the titular hospital is a children's hospital named after its founder, Arthur Childrens.
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Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_fcc32267	featureConfidence	1.0
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