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[quickstixpenny]

"Nowadays… A passage peppered with commas - which in the past would have indicated painstaking and authoritative editorial attention - smacks simply of no backbone. People who put in all the commas betray themselves as moral weaklings with empty lives and out-of-date reference books." (Truss, 2004, p. 97-98)

I didn't know that about myself.