Brer Ardith Hinton wrote to Brer Paul Quinn about Quotation Marks...  2.:   
      
      
    PQ>>  and this taught me to make use of the comma before launching into   
    PQ>> dialogue and recitation.   
      
    AH>            In general, yes... that's how I was taught.  Nowadays I   
    AH> tend to omit it sometimes because I had a university instructor...   
    AH> probably USAian, I guess, based on what I learned in later years...   
    AH> who criticized me for using "too many commas".  Brits tend to use   
    AH> commas with greater frequency than USAians do.  :-)   
      
   Ah-Ha! This is something that has been raging in Fidonet for years. My   
   wife Nancy is a special education teacher, teaching modern English (not   
   Brit) to those who have a learning problem.   
      
   She has always said that commas are something to use to indicate a pause   
   in text. If you were speaking that text, too many commas would make you   
   sound like you're chopping off the text, losing your point. Thus sounding   
   like a Scandinavian in his own tongue.   
      
   Early encounters with one; Bj”rn Felten, a Swede who was taught British   
   English. He used, in my opinion, too many commas and I critized him for   
   it.   
      
   That was over ten years ago and today, he's capable of structuring a   
   sentence without so many 'pauses'.   
      
   Not that his English grammar and the use of proper words in it is   
   concerned though.  In that sense, he sometimes uses is for are and sounds   
   somewhat like our own Rev Jackson.   
      
   Or, as Romeo replied when Juliet asked; "Romeo, Romeo, where fore art   
   thou?"   
      
   And 'Buckwheat's reply was; 'Here I is!'   
      
      
      
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