Do Commas Have Any Impact On Meaning In Smaller Sentences?


Playing a game I encountered two different shop keeps that say the same line.
Only one says a line with a comma, the other says it without. I do know that
commas can help in breaking up clauses in Japanese, but do commas have any
impact on meaning in small sentences like these? Or does it more describe how
it would be spoken?

> また、来て下さいね。
>
> また来て下さいね。




In general, using commas more than usual emphasizes a sentence (for example
"Do, it, right, now."), and of course they affect how the sentence is read.
But what is usual depends on the word. In this case, whether to put a comma
after また is pretty arbitrary, and the difference between the two sentences is
not really significant. Maybe the one with a comma would sound a little more
emphatic or emotional, but I doubt the person who wrote this was thinking
about the comma.




In general, using commas more than usual emphasizes a sentence (for example
"Do, it, right, now."), and of course they affect how the sentence is read.
But what is usual depends on the word. In this case, whether to put a comma
after また is pretty arbitrary, and the difference between the two sentences is
not really significant. Maybe the one with a comma would sound a little more
emphatic or emotional, but I doubt the person who wrote this was thinking
about the comma.

