# . . .and that's why God created commas. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697 "2005-01-26T03:20:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/21 "2005-01-27T12:15:53Z")
Apostrophes, OTOH, are a tool of Satan and [must be destroyed](http://angryflower.com/destro.html). ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/22 "2005-01-27T13:01:05Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > She didn’t even blink. She looked at the girl and said, “I’m sorry. Forgive me.” She then went on with the lecture as if nothing had ever happened. I thought it was handled well, and appropriately dismissed. :dubious: I don’t know. I don’t think that was the best way to handle it. She did nothing she needed to be forgiven for. How 'bout just saying “That’s just a figure of speach\*” and moving on? \*“obviously you fucking git” But she should probably not say that part out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/23 "2005-01-27T14:11:04Z")
**Cervaise** I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you because I am so jealous I didn’t think of that first!!! > [@Gyrate](#): > > Apostrophes, OTOH, are a tool of Satan and [must be destroyed](http://angryflower.com/destro.html). Arrrrggg!!! I was going to post that some other symbol was the work of Satan. Not only did you beat me to it, you linked to a cool cartoon too. Argg!! Man, I’m just two steps behind everyone today! ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/24 "2005-01-27T16:51:07Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I thought the story was that the inventor of the comma traveled far and wide and spread his creation in many different lands and cultures simultaneously, but because he wanted the device to be a gift to humankind and didn’t want any personal credit to accrue to himself he used a variety of names and costumes to conceal his identity. > > You’ve heard of him. He’s known as the Comma Chameleon. Now class, that was an example of a ‘pun’. This has been called the lowest form of wit. In addition, Mr. Humourless, your music teacher, will tell you that the inventor is \*\*in fact \*\* known as ‘Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, Chameleon’. The composer was quite young when he wrote this - just a boy really. Now here is another musical pun. How does Alfred tell his employer that the evening meal is ready? Dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, Batman! And I don’t want to hear any more religious objections. For God’s sake! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/25 "2005-01-27T16:57:09Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Now class, that was an example of a ‘pun’. > This has been called the lowest form of wit. “The pun is a form of wit to which wise men stoop and fools aspire.” ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/26 "2005-01-27T20:19:48Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > :dubious: > > I don’t know. I don’t think that was the best way to handle it. She did nothing she needed to be forgiven for. How 'bout just saying “That’s just a figure of speach\*” and moving on? > \*“obviously you fucking git” But she should probably not say that part out loud. I don’t think she apologized because she thought she’d done wrong, I think she did to end the issue without a debate. If she’d taken the “it’s just a figure of speech, you f\*cking git,” she may have opened the floodgates to more conversation about church and state etc. I thought she dismissed it very well. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/27 "2005-01-27T20:36:26Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Apostrophes, OTOH, are a tool of Satan and [must be destroyed](http://angryflower.com/destro.html). ::rolling my eye’s:: Apo’strophe’s are a tool of 'Satan. And I thought you were 'smart. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/28 "2005-01-27T21:42:19Z")
I, for one, welcome our new comma overlords… Ahem. Well, you knew _someone_ had to say it! ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/29 "2005-01-28T13:59:56Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > I don’t think she apologized because she thought she’d done wrong, I think she did to end the issue without a debate. If she’d taken the “it’s just a figure of speech, you f\*cking git,” she may have opened the floodgates to more conversation about church and state etc. > I thought she dismissed it very well. Not that I’m not applauding her for moving of. Quite the right thing to do. Just thinking that by apologizing she leaves other in the class with the impression that she did something wrong. Which I think is the wrong impression. (And of course I was not suggesting she include the “git” comment in her actual class commentary :D) ---
**Author:** ![SiouxChief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SiouxChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiouxChief)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/30 "2005-01-28T17:17:15Z")
As the professor, she would need to toe the line. It would have been a good idea for someone else in the class to point out that it is “freedom OF religion”, not “freedom FROM religion” that we are guaranteed. Although you’d have to be careful to not start a flamewar in the classroom, someone should have at least pointed out the absurdity of the student’s comment. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697/31 "2005-01-28T19:05:02Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I, for one, welcome our new comma overlords… > […] > Well, you knew _someone_ had to say it! No, more like: “God has no place in the School System! Just like thought has no place in organized religion!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-thats-why-god-created-commas/286697.md?page=1)