Usage examples of "comma" in English with translation to Spanish

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The Oxford comma is awkward, unnecessary, and cannot be carried over to languages other than English. La coma de Oxford es extraña, innecesaria, y no puede ser llevada a otros idiomas distintos del inglés.

My attitude to the comma is physiological; the more breath I have, the fewer commas I use. Mi actitud hacia la coma es fisiológica; entre más aliento tengo, menos comas uso.

Tatoeba: Where nothing ruins a passionate night of sentence-making like a poorly placed comma or, even worse, a careless typo. Tatoeba: Donde nada arruina una noche de apasionada creación de oraciones como una coma mal situada o, incluso peor, un descuidado error ortográfico.

In my language, the "," is called comma, the ";" is called semicolon, ":" is called colon, "..." are called ellipsis, and this sentence ends with a period. En mi idioma, la "," se llama coma, el ";" se llama punto y coma, ":" se llama dos puntos, "…" se llama puntos suspensivos y esta frase acaba con un punto final.

What would German be without commas? ¿Cómo sería el alemán sin comas?

My attitude to the comma is physiological; the more breath I have, the fewer commas I use. Mi actitud hacia la coma es fisiológica; entre más aliento tengo, menos comas uso.

One of the symptoms of schizophrenia is pathological attention to detail, so I feel comforted when I forget a few commas. Uno de los síntomas de la esquizofrenia es la atención patológica a los detalles, así que me siento aliviado cuando olvido algunas comas.

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