Thursday, April 17, 2008

A blog, that talks about commas,

There's a trend I've noticed more and more as of late. People use commas way too often. They think it makes their writing more sophisticated or something. Commas before ands and thats are especially common. Sometimes they should be there obviously. But just sprinkling them wherever does not make your writing seem smarter; it makes it seem awkward. That's all I'm saying.

2 comments:

Monika K said...

Amen. Overusing commas, especially in long, complex sentences, can be a big, obnoxious pain for readers.

P.S. Office was good tonight, no?

Anonymous said...

hahahaha nice usage of the semi-colon. i read this and immediately went back to my own blog to see if i abuse commas. now i am going to think about it every time i use one, so thank you.