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David O'Neil wrote: Unless you, yourself, want, the, reader, to, stop, and, feel, that, pain!
In, the, language blogs, I read, this, has become known, as, the Shatner comma! 
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Both are correct, but you're correct that the latter is somewhat ambiguous.
Consider also "I stepped into the street and was hit by a bus" -- here there is an implied cause-and-effect. In your second sentence, were you hungry because you sat on the couch?
"While sitting on the couch, I began to feel hungry."
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No, he sat on the couch BECAUSE he was hungry - maybe weak with hunger! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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It wouldn't be a * foutieve beknopte bijzin, want het onderwerp in de bijzin is het zelfde als in de hoofdzin ("ik", impliciet), en je hebt ook niet te maken met het geval waar je een werkwoord verandert door er een speciale bijwoordelijke bepaling bij te zetten (namelijk een stiekem voorzetselvoorwerp), zoals in "ik sloeg hem bond en blauw en in de boeien".
* ninja language switch
It may be against style guidelines though.
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Yes! That's exactly what I was thinking of, but couldn't remember 
Enter the ninja 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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The second I is not necessary though neither is it incorrect, just redundant.
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If you're writing it in a formal way, then write it like
"I sat on the couch and I was hungry.", or like this "I was hungry when I sat on couch."
because in formal ways, grammer and punctuation etc matters. If it is an informal letter of something, you can write it in any manner. Reader will understand,
Somehow, I am loving your signature!
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Somehow, I am loving your signature!
I wrote a signature and was doubting between NotSupported- and NotImplementedException 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Both are correct, the first is less clunky.
Now for a Vlams, less clunky is gong to be a difficult concept....
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I would not use either, I would say - "I sat on the couch hungry".
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Because it might be dangerous to say (and do):
"I sat on a hungry couch"
And just to add to the mess, we have discussions as to whether it should be 'sofa' or 'couch'
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The correct answer is, of course:
I sat on the couch and then I had bacon. I am no longer hungry.
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I never really got that bacon thing... Sure, it's nice, but I liked pork chops or spare ribs better.
I say 'liked' because I've been a vegetarian for almost 17 years now, so I'd rather sit on the couch and have a bag of chips/crisps (really, nothing beats a bag of chips/crisps when sitting on a couch!)
Unfortunately I'm trying to lose weight/fat and I'm just sitting there hungry 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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While sitting on the couch, I became hungry for spicy grilled steak burritos.
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Both are perfectly correct, but normally pronouns are omitted when understood because it can sound redundant.
So while "I sat on the couch and I was hungry" is fine, it often doesn't sound good to repeat pronouns that way, so most people will just say "I sat on the couch and was hungry."
Otherwise you end up with sentences like "I sat on the couch and I was hungry, so I ate some leftovers from when I had dinner last night." It sounds better to say "I sat on the couch and was hungry, so I ate some leftovers from dinner last night."
You have to be careful with ambiguity though, for instance:
"I sat on the couch, my dog joined me, and the hunger grew."
Are you hungry? Is the dog hungry? Are you both hungry? A pronoun would help there.
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They are both grammatically correct. From a style standpoint, the sentence combines (seemingly) unrelated ideas. That is, it begs more questions than it answers. Did the couch make you hungry? The the act of sitting make you hungry? When editing I would suggest something like:
As I sat on the couch, I realized that I was hungry.
One of the neat things about English for non-native speakers is that sentences can be formed in at least three ways:
I took my brown dog for a walk.
My brown dog I took for a walk.
I took for a walk, my brown dog.
I took my brown dog for a walk?
Although some are more awkward, they are all correct.
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Both the comma and the "I" are optional. Google "ellipsis" for explanations.
[edit] Having looked at a few other replies, I ought to point out that, no matter how you decide to write it, the sentence comprises two clauses, and cannot be parsed as a single one.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They are both correct. The first however gives a sense that the sitting on the couch helped you feel hungry. The second lists two separate things and ideally should be separated by a comma.
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A Very Merry Unbirthday![^]
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I say that boy's about as subtle as a hand grenade in a barrel of oatmeal.
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Please. Have extra respect for oatmeal.
What other food can you eat.
Then, should you get nauseous and puke into your bowl,
The oatmeal still looks the same as when you ate it the first time,
And It's still warm and ready to eat again!
It's really special.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It's really special.
Put some pink food coloring in it and it also looks like brains. Thus, oatmeal is brain food.
Jeremy Falcon
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Oatmeal then, can be viewed as an infinite loop food item. In theory, the same bowl of oatmeal can be eaten forever, with no ending.
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