On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:15:19 -0600, Tom Ring
wrote:

Did I get the commas correct Richard?

No.

Commas can be used to clear cloudy sentences. You did that in the
first sentence, but you also had the suggestion of a comma splice
later. Proper usage would have been to replace it with a semicolon,
or eliminate it (break the splice) to make another sentence. However
the second sentence is not a sentence, much less two of them. There
is no predicate. So discussion of proper comma usage is largely moot.

I am sure most followed the thoughts through to completion without a
blip in understanding. English is quite flexible in that regard.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Richard Clark wrote:

On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:15:19 -0600, Tom Ring
wrote:


Did I get the commas correct Richard?


No.

Commas can be used to clear cloudy sentences. You did that in the
first sentence, but you also had the suggestion of a comma splice
later. Proper usage would have been to replace it with a semicolon,
or eliminate it (break the splice) to make another sentence. However
the second sentence is not a sentence, much less two of them. There
is no predicate. So discussion of proper comma usage is largely moot.

I am sure most followed the thoughts through to completion without a
blip in understanding. English is quite flexible in that regard.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Well, I knew it was botched up, since I botched it intentionally, which
is why I asked. I was sure that you would have an answer worth reading.

I am curious as to why I seldom see my own posts, and even then only
after a long delay, while I get most others almost immediately.
Obviously my post showed on your news server within minutes of my
sending it. I still haven't seen it here.

tom
K0TAR

On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:26:27 -0600, Tom Ring
wrote:

Well, I knew it was botched up, since I botched it intentionally, which
is why I asked. I was sure that you would have an answer worth reading.

Hi Tom,

Commas are a recent invention for language and quotation marks even
more modern. One writer, outraged by his publisher's demand that he
use punctuation put them all at the end of his book and invited
readers to draw from them and season his words as they pleased.

I am curious as to why I seldom see my own posts, and even then only
after a long delay, while I get most others almost immediately.
Obviously my post showed on your news server within minutes of my
sending it. I still haven't seen it here.

NNTP feeds are a strange thing. I'm surprised that it works. There
have been years when I had to wait quite long to see my own posts. I
am also surprised how computers can flip their bits a billion times a
second, and manage to not get lost (so often).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC