Does this sentence read OK to you? It's the way I'm wired, I'm not about to change. If you said no, you're right. It's a kind of run-on sentence or "run-together sentence." It's an example of a comma ...

An error known as a comma splice (or comma fault) results when a comma is mistakenly placed between two independent clauses that are not joined by a coordinating ...

As part of my job, I read the written work of lots of different people of different ages. I notice that many of them use comma splices, and it makes their writing difficult to read. The more I read ...