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Is it forbidden in English to use commas?
Too close to the word commi
Commas are somewhat discouraged... or at least discretion with commas is encouraged. We have a rule about commas. "If in doubt, don't."
We should only use commas for certain prescribed circumstances or if the comma is necessary for clarity.
That said I will defend the Oxford comma to my last breath.
The irony being that now people use ellipses to mark a sentence pause, which isn't really how an ellipsis is meant to be used. They were supposed to be for removing unnecessary but implied language from quotes. Agreed on the oxford comma though.
Yeah I like the ... despite knowing it's really for something like a trailing list. Its use seems regional even within the US. Our business partners in Chicago didn't like it when we included the dots in emails.
That being said every comma they did use was also wrong.
Oh good point. When you nest something into commas like that the sentence is supposed to still make sense when you remove the bit between the commas.
According to Cormac McCarthy? Yes.
My forgotten friend, the ; is always sad that people forget that they exist.