16.10.10

The importance of the comma

It's true what they say when they talk about punctuation...Without the use of a single comma, a sentence's meaning can totally change. Take for example a tweet from Oyster magazine:
'Billy Corgan is fucking amazing kids! #fb' Oyster Magazine
Really? Is he having sex with 'amazing kids' at a concert? Scandalous! And how does Oyster magazine have the dirt on this?
Perhaps the tweeter meant:
'Billy Corgan is fucking amazing, kids!' Yeah, he probably is awesome.
For a fashion magazine with an image focusing on the latest 'cool' frontrunning fashion and culture...such a mistake is laughable. I never bought Oyster and will probably never buy it now...I'm afraid I'll be finding more of such laughable clauses littered throughout the mag...

signing off.

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