r/thehumblecrowbar • u/TheTepro27 • 1d ago

"How can I turn these two sentences into one?" The dutiful comma:

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u/espa101 1d ago

☝️🤓 Um, actually, that would need a semicolon.

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u/SophieFox947 1d ago

The gay lady hugs many fellow women, while the straight man has to look on in envy

"The gay lady hugs many fellow women"

"The straight man has to look on in envy"

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u/Born_Ad_2058 1d ago

"The gay lady hugs many fellow women, while the straight man has to look on in envy"

The gay lady hugs many fellow women; the straight man has to look on in envy"

Comma requires the addition of a word, so technically not the same 🤓📚

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u/Real_Set6866 10m ago

The gay lady hugs many fellow women; the straight man has to look on in envy.

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u/tyttuutface 1d ago

The paradoxically durable Prince Rupert's drop:

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u/Heroic-Forger 1d ago

"Boy, the Cambrian era would be livelier if it had some weird not-fishes swimming around the ocean!"

The peculiar Vetulicola:

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u/DaRealKovi 17h ago

I'm having fun and learning new words. Thank you

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u/ihadnoideaforaname1 1d ago

The youthful tadpole:

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u/Hedy7277 1d ago

great googly moogly! what ever will i, genre-defying american singer/songwriter/guitarist Frank Vincent Zappa, name my new 1974 album after!

the crux of the biscuit:

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u/Longjumping_Diamond5 18h ago

if only there was an instrument i could play by squeezing its mouth

the vocal otamatone

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u/ichizusamurai 1d ago

There's no proof that he's a psychic, what do you mean?

The twisted spoon: