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The Curious Power of Punctuation

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  1. wpollock · · focus · HN ↗
    Dang says tomhow is the better moderator.

    Dang, says tomhow, is the better moderator.

    1. sharts · · focus · HN ↗
      English can be so imprecise.
      1. robotresearcher · · focus · HN ↗
        Those sentences are perfectly precise. Yes they are sensitive to the commas, just as they are to the whitespace and spelling.
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