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Scott Adsit
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Posted: 19 April 2026 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Gertrude Stein had a bit of a rivalry with commas. She said...

"A comma by helping you along holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes keeps you from living your life as actively as you should lead it and to me for many years... the use of them was positively degrading."

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"A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that lets you stop and take a breath but if you want to take a breath you ought to know yourself that you want to take a breath."

Though I've never come across what commas think of Gertrude Stein.
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Posted: 19 April 2026 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

I’ve gone to war with a few editors over commas!
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