Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
A Comma-nist Manifesto
Like tiny
little tadpoles, commas are fun
Randomly swimming
in a pool of words
Feeding on
microscopic organisms -
They might
grow up to be dictionaries
Unless
they are devoured by an A.I.
Do Oxford
commas wear tiny Cambridge shoes?
Or do they
simply float about, separating clauses
As
commanded by Fowler1, but not by a fisher
Commas
will mend a certain grammatical flaw
Lest “Let’s
eat, Grandma!” become “Let’s eat Grandma!”2
1 Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Oxford University Press,
many editions
2 Possibly every language teacher has employed this old wheeze.
