No comma before the vocative
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No comma before the vocative
Throughout the book, the author never uses commas before, and sometimes even after, vocatives. Some examples are "You must be mistaken sir", "Drop that chair leg my lad", "Come on Berman" and so on. There are also no commas in internal dialogue: "He must be careful he thought" instead of "He must be careful, he thought". Now, my questions are:
1. Should I count all of these as objective typos, or do I just think of them as part of the author's style, since this is how he writes all throughout?
2. Even if you ascribe them to personal style, should I at least mark them down as typos in the cases where not using a comma actually changes the meaning of the sentence (for example "Let him be lads" instead of "Let him be, lads", "I am mistress" instead of "I am, mistress")?
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