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Lu was the originator of the comma shaker.
Samuel Beckett was the poet laureate of the comma splice.
And it's all because of the comma.
The absence of the comma is easily explained.
Instead of the comma splice, use a period, semicolon or dash.
Oxford comma fans like to point to hilarious examples of how the lack of the comma can cause confusion.
Draw the tail of the comma directly below the period portion.
Only a few of the embryos arrested at the comma stage (5.6%, n = 107).
This effect occurs because of the way one would express the number verbally: "One thousand four hundred and ninety-nine," for the comma versions versus "fourteen ninety-nine" for the unpunctuated version.
The difference is the comma of Didymus, or syntonic comma, and equals 0.22 of a semitone.
There are two commonly cited commas, the Pythagorean comma and the comma of Didymus, or syntonic comma.
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