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"Piracy hurts, it hurts our economy," Vice President Joe Biden said in releasing the 61-page plan drafted

61-page draft and ask him to sum it up and he will go nuts!! He has no idea what he is speaking of..just a beau talk

He also apparently speak in comma splices.

Many people do. Spoken language rarely transcribes to good written language.

All that is required to transcribe that quote correctly (and a few others in the article) is to use a semicolon instead of a comma.

Oh, I know. One of my friends noted the same thing recently--people use semicolons all the time in spoken language. But in written language it looks pretentious somehow.

People don't use semicolons in speech — they use emdashes.

I always wondered what a semicolon sounded like.

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