re: #74 Anymouse 🌹

I get confused when I’m using my computer versus using my typewriter. Two spaces? One? Screw it and just start a new line for each sentence?

My former book publisher put out a style rule saying the Oxford comma should not be used. That resulted in every editor and copyeditor in the company saying “no.”

Lynne Truss (“Eats, Shoots and Leaves”) gives a good account of why the comma is so impossible in English. It is not just a matter of learning a lot of “If x then y” rules, it is a matter of appreciated grammar and the structure of the sentence you are forming (To people who comprehend neither grammar nor sentence structure).

And don’t even get me going on hyphenation.