Warp wrote:
> Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>>> Warp wrote:
>>>>   I have learned to reread everything I write. I reread all my news posts
>>>> before I send them (well, at least if they are longer than a few lines).
>>>> Sometimes I spend more time re-editing and fine-tuning the text than
>>>> I spent writing it for the first time... :P
> 
>> And it shows, your posts are without exception fluent and well reasoned.
> 
>   I write too many commas, though. That's because I tend to instinctively
> put a comma everywhere where I would put it if I were writing in Finnish,
> where commas are used quote a lot. In English commas are used more rarely.
> 
>   I have lately tried to get rid of this instinct when writing in English.

Commas are tricky... most native speakers aren't too sure where to put 
them. I know when they look wrong or right, and when there should be one 
when there isn't, but I'm not sure I could describe the rules. I guess 
the main thing is to use them to avoid ambiguity when parsing a sentence.

FWIW your comma usage is as correct as anyone else's around here.

Just don't get me started on apostrophes :)

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