On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Aaron Elkins <threc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > On Jul 11, 2017, at 15:52, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: >> >> You are right that commas are often overused, drh. I catch myself doing >> it occasionally. > > > Related trivia: native German speakers, regardless of whether they're > functionally fluent in English, can often be identified in internet forums > via their overuse of commas (and their use of the word "actual", which is > used differently in German - if someone writes "the actual version of the > software is ..." when you would have said "current version" then they're > most likely a native German speaker).
.. or, although less likely, a native Swedish, Norwegian, or Luxembourgish speaker: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aktuell With "less likely", I don not mean that we are less linguistically error prone than the Germans, but we are simply less (about a tenth of them). And, yes, we also do love commas. :-) /J > > > Interesting saying. > > -Aaron > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
