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is a permanent predicament for the writer. The conflict of how to use it correctly must be endured each time by the writer. One needs either a lot of strength or a lot of stupidity not to lose heart.

The writer is in a permanent predicament when it comes to punctuation marks; if one were fully aware while writing, one would sense the impossibility of ever using a mark of punctuation correctly and would give up writing altogether. For the requirements of the rules of punctuation and those of the subjective need for logic and expression are not compatible... The conflict must be endured each time, and one needs either a lot of strength or a lot of stupidity not to lose heart.

Without letters, punctuation looks lonely.

is the difference between "let's eat grandpa" and "let's eat, grandpa".

is able to really change the meaning of a sentence. "Let's eat grandma" is entirely different from "let's eat punctuation".

is best kept as conventional as possible. Just as the game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green, so too should you be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

is crucial --- Even where the sense is perfectly clear, a sentence may be deprived of half its force - its spirit - its point - by improper punctuation. For the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

Punctuation Even where the sense is perfectly clear, a sentence may be deprived of half its force - its spirit - its point - by improper punctuation. For the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

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