the new english? Totally different point

[Duane Campbell]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 13:49:28 -0400 Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
writes:

> Agreed.  The objectionable (to some) conjunction + comma sequences
> are those where the comma or break is motivated by the conjunction
> itself.  ("It has less calories.  And, it tastes great."

Aside from the fact that the statement in impossible in the real world,
it does bring up an interesting punctuation situation.  Fior me using a
comma or not changes the voicing, thus the intent, of the sentence.

1.  With the comma:   AND ... it tastes great.

2. Without the comma:  And it Tastes Great.

I would use or not use the comma depending on how I wanted the readers to
perceive it. That is because I operate under the fiction that my readers
read as carefully as I write.

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