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Old 05-15-2020, 05:21 PM
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Default Punctuation is there for a reason!

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Originally Posted by OhioBuckeye View Post
Why is putting a comma in wrong spot or whatever a big deal most of us read comments & understand them even if a word is misspelled totally wrong, most of the time I understand it but I’m not going to criticize someone for punctuation mistakes. We’re hear to read comment not spelling & other mistakes! I agree with you Two Bills.!?/$”:&$. Oh no why did my computer make all of these punctuation mistakes. Nobody cares!
But meanings can vary tremendously based on punctuation placement. For example:

Eats shoots and leaves.
Eats, shoots, and leaves.

This is the title of a book by British author Lydia Truss on the importance of punctuation, in this example commas. Identical words—but one describes the feeding patterns of pandas; the other may be a crime scene....