re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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.

I have that book.

See also “Let’s eat Grandma!” versus “Let’s eat, Grandma!”