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Subject:Why we nitpick From:Mark Levinson <mark -at- CRABAPPLE -dot- BITNET> Date:Wed, 9 Feb 1994 14:22:39 IST
Let's concentrate on the message itself and not on whether or not all the
commas are in the right place.
** In the short run, if we writers don't pay attention to 99 commas that
have little effect on the message, we'll bobble the one in a hundred
that does.
In the long run, if we ask people to ignore incorrect punctuation, we
can't expect them to take correct punctation seriously when it does
carry meaning.
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