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		tierack on April 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rules no one teaches but everyone learns I used to think of commas as verbal pacing cues as well, but they have more in common with parentheses or semicolons in code. The rule I remember now is "Commas are for parsing, not rendering."

timr on May 1, 2009 [–]

Commas are for both. There are few hard-and-fast rules for comma placement; mostly it's a matter of style.

Unlike commas, there are only a few situations where semicolons are correctly used.

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