I'll bite....
BVT-- If this is from a post, then I'd say there is no problem. This is a strange creature since it works in a few ways. For example, you could always contain those last four words in parantheses since it is an off-hand remark, used for humor.
parados wrote:
Apparently marijuana causes new neuron growth in the brain and produces more brain cells. All hungry no doubt. (My preference since it seperates the final phrase and accentuates it.)
Apparently marijuana causes new neuron growth in the brain and produces more brain cells; all hungry no doubt. (I have no real idea what the rules are on the semicolon but it might be more appropriate than the comma.)
Apparently marijuana causes new neuron growth in the brain and produces more brain cells, all hungry no doubt. (This works for me too.)
I agree but the sentence in the middle is my preference and I'd add two commas. The second short portion, "All hungry, no doubt," is a simple declarative sentence with a short comma-separated opinion added. The subject and verb "They are" is implied. Since a semicolon is used to separate two clauses that can stand alone as sentences, but are joined because of their content.
The first half of that long sentence: "Apparently marijuana causes new neuron growth in the brain and produces more brain cells" begs a reply. The humor of the short declaration is not in doubt, and a semicolon best defines their relationship, imo.
I would also separate the first word with a comma... but that's a quibble I might lose:
The King's English wrote:Putting commas round apparently amounts to the insertion of a further clause, such as, Though you would not think they could be such fools. But what the precise contents of the further clause may be is problematic. At any rate, a writer should not invite us to read between the lines unless he is sure of two things: what he wants to be read there; and that we are likely to be willing and able readers of it. The same is true of many words that are half adverbs and half conjunctions, like therefore. We have the right to comma them off if we like; but, unless it is done with a definite purpose, it produces perplexity as well as heaviness.
I hope you appreciate my first sentence.
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