And Another Link

[gnomi]

This time, on the current comma crisis.

(I've always had a theory about commas -- that there's a comma continuum and for each comma I remove from one author's prose, I add one to another author's prose. Perhaps this is a glitch in that system.)

Comments

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

Hee! I saw that and absolutely cracked up. velvetpaws and I both used to joke about commas all the time when we both worked at Parabola, and had to fight with our senior editor over using the Oxford comma.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Back when I used to beta a lot, I noticed that people who overused commas in one place tended to underuse them elsewhere.

I had been known to comment, "Please take the extra commas from this sentence and apply them here and here."

[half-double.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. You've seen it. Now I don't have to send it to you.

[sdelmonte]

This is the worst crisis of its sort since the 1997 period shortage.