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17
Aug
Bart Kosko’s latest book, Noise, spits in the face of punctuation standards. Kosko has decided that commas are merely a form of ‘channel noise’ and will no longer use them in his writing. He says that ‘it keeps you from getting to the verbs fast enough.’ Idiotic, if you ask me; I’d think his book would be painful to read. As Liberman at Language Log put it, ‘why not leave out the spaces, too, andgettothoseverbsevenfaster?’
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