MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

vivaldirules · 10-09-2010, 06:09 PM

I vaguely remember one or more of my primary school teachers in the 1960's telling us that a comma belongs in a sentence "whenever you slow down". It should come as no surprise that for years I've had to regularly relearn the use of commas because of that. Right now, I can't tell you for certain how many commas belong in this paragraph. Fortunately, since I'm old and have advanced degrees in science, no one seems to care too much about my punctuation. And most of my colleagues don't knows how ether nor how to spel wich seams uppropriate I think.

10-09-2010, 06:09 PM	#10
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	I vaguely remember one or more of my primary school teachers in the 1960's telling us that a comma belongs in a sentence "whenever you slow down". It should come as no surprise that for years I've had to regularly relearn the use of commas because of that. Right now, I can't tell you for certain how many commas belong in this paragraph. Fortunately, since I'm old and have advanced degrees in science, no one seems to care too much about my punctuation. And most of my colleagues don't knows how ether nor how to spel wich seams uppropriate I think.