Originally Posted by
Barry Shnikov
Sorry, JL, but the question you got in shorts was fatuous. At least, from the point of view of grammar. The point of punctuation is to communicate clearly. We need the sort of clues that pacing, emphasis and intonation provide in speech. Concocting a spurious sentence, leaving the appropriate punctuation out and trying to guess what the correct punctuation might be is as useful as converting a tune to a single note played at uniform intervals and guessing what the song is.
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