Nathaniel Hawthorne Entry posted by BioGio July 1, 2012 566 views Share More sharing options... Followers 0 So many commas. Somanycommas. And in places they don't really belong! My poor, fragile sanity...
Ballom Nom Nom Posted July 1, 2012 I don't remember anything about excessive commas, but I do remember how I loathed The Scarlet Letter when I had to read it for school. *shudder* ~B~ Quote Link to comment
Sumiki Posted July 2, 2012 Literarily, he seemed to take pleasure in the art of trolling grammar nazis. Pretty good, especially considering that he's been dead for nearly 150 years. Quote Link to comment
BioGio Posted July 2, 2012 @Ballom: His sentence structure lends itself to really unwieldy, comma-littered, prose. Long sentences often need a lot of punctuation. Plus, there are some instances of comma abuse, such as "the reason, that [whatever]." @Sumiki: He haunts us even from his grave! Quote Link to comment
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