Some few of you folks know that by day I do some copy editing. I imagine that menial servicepersons in all industries have internal conversations much like mine
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Have those moments too .. far to many for my linking but still. It helps us to get through those times when there is self-doubt and loathing not to be able to write the great (American/Gernman) novel of the 21st century ourselves ... sigh.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Do not, under any circumstances, fall from the ranks of those who know the difference between a Comma Splice and a Cherry Slice! We are a dying breed! Pomposity (sp?) is a necessary evil.
What's that - Viv has doubts about the importance of proper commas? Impossible! ;-)
As someone who regularly commits many of the grammatical crimes in your book, I must hurry to tell you that, yes, your work is important - very important!
You're sort of a language police, keeping the worst offenders at bay and preventing the rest of us from being led (too far) astray. *g*
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As someone who regularly commits many of the grammatical crimes in your book, I must hurry to tell you that, yes, your work is important - very important!
You're sort of a language police, keeping the worst offenders at bay and preventing the rest of us from being led (too far) astray. *g*
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