On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:53:33 -0400, Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at
vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:

>
>I was taught the same in grade school; that the comma could be used to 
>indicate a pause. By college, my English professor tried to remove that 
>bad habit. Losing 3 letter grades on one draft just from misplaced 
>commas taught me better then all the rules she could quote.
>

Academics, know all, know f' all (pardon my French :)

>Do I dare tell her that what I really learned was: "If you can't figure 
>out where to put the comma then just re-write the sentence."

I dare you to, with a baseball bat. :)

Being dyslexic, school, was the, bane of, my life,,,.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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