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where does this apparently omnipresent desire to put a comma after the subject in a sentence come from? i see it in english and german
in reply to wayfinder

I’ve seen ot called ‘boomer comma’ in English, but haven’t found any discussion of the phenomenon. For German, there’s this blog post: https://derzwiebel.wordpress.com/2022/02/22/vorfeldkomma/. I’m not sure we’re talking about the same comma position, though