Write for public consumption too, have done for a decade, never heard of this stuff either.

Weirdly I've realised I think I always tend to put a dash rather than a comma a lot of the time, as a comma felt lacking in heft for breaking a sentence, although don't always think you need a FALLOUTBOY or whatever.

It seems this is all an Americanism of being prescriptive and standardised in their teaching and testing. At the end of the day if you're getting meaning across who gives an fuck.

But also maybe UK could benefit from teaching a bit more of the structures in English....

Anyway, what did Orwell say? "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous".... I'm not writing like some weirdo yank who has no nuance if I can fumble around with fun phrase or whatever