Asyndeton is the simplest and the unmarked connection. It’s the connection I would use, the connection strategy I would use when the writer thinks that there’s no need to provide any instruction. So, to take the Hallmark commercial, “It’s the one you would use when you don’t care enough to send the very best.” It can be used to join two items of equal status—meaning, two noun phrases, two clauses, two paragraphs—and it’s going to be the default connective strategy used in nonnarratives, so meaning