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Settle a bet with a feisty coworker.
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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I can't reconcile this. If a semicolon is the appropriate punctuation, it's a run-on sentence, no?
My feisty coworker was telling me that it's not a run-on because there is an implied "because." I told em that I was unaware of the "implied because" doctrine that excuses run-on sentences. Em is otherwise very bright (hi, em!) but, bitch, please --- "implied because"?
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My thought is that yes, it is a run-on if "careful" is an independent clause. I can see an argument that it is a dependent clause, but I think it stands on its own. "Implied because" is silly, and fiesty co-worker should be bitchslapped with a grammar text for even suggesting such a thing.
But then I always thought that there should have been a colon in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." I lost that battle.
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