Thursday, September 13, 2007

An abundance of commas

Today's words that are not the same:

depends
deepens


Today's punctuation marks that are not the same:

,
.


Today's words that are not words:

magicans
muscial


Spellcheck is not by any means a replacement for editing (as the first entry in this post makes clear), but there's a lot to be said for using it to at least give things a once-over and draw your eye to typos. And seriously, what is it with the commas? There are many punctuation marks that can be used to conclude sentences, but commas are not on the list.