On 2024-01-19, David Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+0000), [email protected] wrote: >> Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I won, and you lost >> >> There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in >> the closely related expression "I won, you lost." > > That's rather proscriptive. "I won and you lost." and > "I won, and you lost." are two different sentences. >
AFAIK, "you lost" is an independent clause and should be separated from the independent clause that precedes it with a comma before the coordinating conjunction.
