The comma is needed otherwise why have any punctuation anywhere you could just allow words to continually run on without needing to worry about using the proper punctuation and then people would just have to use comma sense and infer from what you are typing what it is you meant this case should be thrown out because clearly they meant distribution as a separate item and so they shouldnt have to have to use a comma its nonsense right from here on out i will no longer use punctuation but good thing i havent needed it for this comment since everyone reading this will know exactly what my intent is
a) Nicely done! The guy from those 1980’s Micromachine commercials would be proud to read your post aloud!
b) This case is EXACTLY why I get frustrated when people on this site negatively call me out for “word parsing” when I’m trying to understand their intent. There can be different interpretations solely based on how punctuation is used, let alone how the sentence is structured.
After all “can’t eat diarrhea” has a totally different meaning than ‘can’t eat; diarrhea.”
The comma is needed otherwise why have any punctuation anywhere you could just allow words to continually run on without needing to worry about using the proper punctuation and then people would just have to use comma sense and infer from what you are typing what it is you meant this case should be thrown out because clearly they meant distribution as a separate item and so they shouldnt have to have to use a comma its nonsense right from here on out i will no longer use punctuation but good thing i havent needed it for this comment since everyone reading this will know exactly what my intent is
a) Nicely done! The guy from those 1980’s Micromachine commercials would be proud to read your post aloud!
b) This case is EXACTLY why I get frustrated when people on this site negatively call me out for “word parsing” when I’m trying to understand their intent. There can be different interpretations solely based on how punctuation is used, let alone how the sentence is structured.
After all “can’t eat diarrhea” has a totally different meaning than ‘can’t eat; diarrhea.”
It does make a difference. “Let’s eat, Grandpa” is VERY different from “Let’s eat Grandpa”.
You betcha! As for sentence structure:
The senators objected to the plans proposed by the generals
and
The senators proposed the plans objected to by the generals
have two different meanings. I saw someone else post this here and I’m going to steal it now: words (and punctuation) matter!