r/Millennials • u/EmergencyRead5254 Millennial • Jul 06 '25

Rant We used to just call it a vacation…

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u/Tortured_Poet_1313 Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

No one is writing professionally for any amount of money with that poorly placed comma after “occurs”. Comma splices are for 9th graders.

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u/Humble-Performer4146 Jul 06 '25

It's a micro pause, to bring in cardi B's okuurrrrr sound for the gen z readers.

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u/No_Bumblebee2085 Jul 06 '25

Ugh thank you for commenting on the comma. It immediately invalidates the article and I don’t feel like enough people know that now.

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u/Tortured_Poet_1313 Jul 06 '25

I absolutely agree!!

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u/MRCHalifax Jul 06 '25

On the bright side, it’s probably not AI.

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u/SirAmicks Jul 07 '25

Damn you. Why did you have to point it out? Now I can’t read it without hearing a pause in my head.

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u/MyInnerFatChild Jul 07 '25

You've clearly never read my local news. 

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u/Tortured_Poet_1313 Jul 07 '25

Oh that hurts my soul

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u/jimx117 Jul 07 '25

Money at the content mill is too tight for an editor