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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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Atticus. I did not know that you worked at Starbucks. I'll have a double tall non-fat latte.
Isn't there also an inplied "be" before careful, with an understood you? Wouldn't that then be 2 sentences and not a runon?
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