Ran across this quote today: "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. - Oscar Wilde"
I have so done that! :)
Hugs,
Erin
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Mistakes ?
With Arabic as second language, I sometimes find myself writing in pigeon English that some Arabs use. Sometimes hard to know.
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I change by sentence. There and back again, sometimes 5 minutes later, sometimes a day. Every word is measured, even my 'and' and 'the'... mostly anyway.
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A Word on Commas
They can be very important. I mean, think of it.
"What's that on the road, ahead?"
or
"What do you on, your mind?"
HW Coyle,
a.k.a. nancycole
"You may be what you resolve to be."
T.J. Jackson
Agreed
Agreed. Here's a wonderful example, quoted in Henry Hitchings' 'The Language Wars'.
(I paraphrase)
What's the difference between 'After dinner, the men went into the living room' and 'After dinner the men went into the living room'?
The comma in the first sentence gives the men time to stand up and push back their chairs.
No Man
No man pushes back his chair, he exhales so the chair pushes him back.