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<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(245, 248, 250);" class="">Let's eat grandpa: why punctuation isn't a matter of life and death, even
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There’s a pedant at my university who likes to stand on the Quad, wave a grammar book at passers-by, and warn them that a comma can mean the difference between life and death. He or she points an accusing finger at some poor soul and makes them fix the commas
in their term paper.</p>
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You’d better get those commas right, pedants like to warn, because “Commas save lives,” an eternal truth they illustrate with the life-and-death Parable of the Dinner Guest: </p>
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<em class=""> </em>(2)<em class=""> Let’s eat grandpa.</em></p>
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Don’t let the pedants sucker you with their scary comma talk. There is no one in their right mind who reads the second example as an invitation to cannibalism. </p>
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