Logo
Shatner commas: Oddly placed commas that don't seem to serve any a

Shatner commas: Oddly placed commas that don’t seem to serve any actual purpose in punctuation, but make it look like you should take odd pauses, as William Shatner does when delivering lines. – Author unknown

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Grammar
category

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. – Edgar Allan Poe

Category:
Grammar

A pronoun… will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: they does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays. – Karen Elizabeth Gordon, “Agreements,” The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimat

Category:
Grammar

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. – Mark Twain

Category:
Grammar

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. – William Safire

Category:
Grammar

Random Quotes

Im looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner. – Melanie Roach

Category:
mom

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. – Tryon Edwards

Category:
Death

Beauty is only skin deep, but its a valuable asset if youre poor or havent any sense. – Vernon Howard

Category:
Beauty

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Category:
Weekends