02-26-2023, 11:24 PM
Bill in NC wrote:
I type up the minutes for our monthly HOA board meetings.
I then run the above through a free grammar checker, which tells me to add commas.
So apparently the more commas, the better.
This reminds me of a book I was given years ago. It was an autobiography by Larry Fine (of The Three Stooges). I literally coudn't finish it. Actually, I barely made it through the first chapter. I had never seen so may commas used it a printed book. It was quite sad, as I figured he must have written it after he had his stroke(s).
Wondering if it was just my imagination, for the hell of it, I just found a review of it on Amazon.
The book is obviously self-published, because no editor with a hint of self respect would have allowed this manuscript to go to the printer in anything resembling this condition. Early on, one gains the impression that the "author" (and I use the term loosely) was paid by the comma -- because almost every sentence has a minimum of 2 or 3 superfluous commas. Let's not even talk about other punctuation, or the grammar (or lack thereof).