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colleen (4673 words)
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Word Words, by cricket
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It isn't only kooky libertarians who believe that, uselessness. :-)
The spirit of the law is greater than the letter of the law, I say. Then again, I'm a kooky libertarian. ;-)
"Advocates of both gun rights and gun control are making a tactical mistake by focusing on the commas of the Second Amendment. After all, couldn’t one just as easily obsess about the founders’ odd use of capitalization?" -- Adam Freedman, "Clause and Effect," NYT, 12/16/07; also in "The Right to Keep and Bear Adjuncts," Language Log, 12/17/07
Reading Hemingway's "The Dangerous Summer," and there is a severe lack of comma usage; it's driving me crazy.
Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.