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Q&A What punctuation would you invent to solve your issues?

This is one thing I think English needs: the "Ammoc" -- it looks like a comma, but backwards. It's used to indicate when one feels that for breath or speaking issues, a pause is needed, but it gra...

posted 5y ago by April Salutes Monica C.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T11:40:07Z (almost 5 years ago)
This is one thing I think English needs: the " **Ammoc**" -- it looks like a comma, but backwards.

It's used to indicate when one feels that for breath or speaking issues, **a pause is needed, but it grammatically does NOT fit the rules of using a comma**.

Often this is when the subject phrase is pretty long, so when speaking, one adds a break before the verb.

I often see a need for this is corporate-ese: speakers often pause after each phrase, whether or not it's a full clause that would have punctuation surrounding it.

This could also be used to indicate that small pause in dialog -- a little less intense of one than an em-dash or ellipses.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-04-08T15:21:50Z (over 5 years ago)
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