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Can a comma splice always be fixed by replacing the comma with a semicolon?

(I am not asking a rhetorical question.)

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Date: 2012-01-20 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com
Wikipedia says the main fixes are replacing with semicolon, making the two clauses into two sentences instead, adding a suitable conjunction after the comma, or making one clause dependent on the other.

This response brought to you by my having to look up what the hell a comma splice _was_.

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Date: 2012-01-20 02:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com
I did see that in the Wikipedia article but I wasn't sure they were right.

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Date: 2012-01-20 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com
Those fixes sounded right to me.

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