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I know you’re kidding but golly does comma misuse stop me in my tracks every time. I can slide past almost any other spelling or style error without a second thought, or even crazy autocorrect errors in which, say, the word “mother” has been replaced with “toaster”, but this sort of comma misuse is like nails on a chalkboard to me. And it’s rampant.


A misplaced comma can change the meaning of text entirely.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180723-the-commas-tha...




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