Re: Too and commas

[becky.rickly@umich.edu (Becky Rickly)]

"commatose"?  I thought he was just using comma sense....

At 10:05 AM 3/10/98, Nick Carbone wrote:

>Pat,
>        Have you read Thurber's _The Years with Ross_ where Thurber
>recounts a disagreement with Ross about Ross's penchant for inserting
>commas into everyone's prose.  At the end of it, Thurber writes, something
>along the lines of 'I wish I had thought to tell him that he was making
>the writing commatose.'
>
>        At anyrate, for a bit on comma's and humor, the passage is
>invaluable.
>
>Nick Carbone, Writing Instructor
>Marlboro College
>Marlboro, VT 05344
>nickc@marlboro.edu