Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
A Comma-nist Manifesto
Like tiny little tadpoles, commas are fun
Randomly swimming in a pool of words
Feeding on microscopic organisms -
They might grow up to be dictionaries
Unless they are devoured by an A.I.
Do Oxford commas wear tiny Cambridge shoes?
Or do they simply float about, separating clauses
As commanded by Fowler1, but not by a fisher
Commas will mend a certain grammatical flaw
Lest “Let’s eat, Grandma!” become “Let’s eat Grandma!”2
1 Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Oxford University Press, many editions
2 Possibly every language teacher has employed this old wheeze.
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