During our business meeting in Pasadena in June, I got a reputation amongst my peer managers and my boss for being a bit fastidious in my copy editing. It was decided that my secret super-hero identity was Too Many Commas Man, after my propensity for inserting commas into the stuff we were reviewing (mission statements, etc.).
This has become something of a running gag in e-mail threads in our group. Today, I mentioned it to my boss.
Me: I suppose there are worse reputations I could have.
Boss: Yup.
Me. I could be Too-Many-Colons Man.
Based on the coffee that came spewing across the wire and through my monitor, I think I amused him.
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Well, Dave, I have to say, I think, that, as I see it, this problem, as described above, is not, and should not be considered, a problem, per se.
Now if you were Not-Enough-Commas-Man that could be a real problem because it can make it really really hard to make sense you know of what a person’s written when he doesn’t put commas which actually have an important function of course in the appropriate places as you take I believe great care in most cases anyway to do and as I usually although clearly not always try to do as well.