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Hey, don't go telling a guy, who has had a 40 year long love affair with English, that his sweetheart is dispassionate and only fit for merchants and politicians! I do not agree!

Failing to put "English, British and American" in caps was simple sloppyness from me, sorry.( or is that "sloppiness"?) One thing that makes the whole "comma" thing hard for me is that the rules in Danish are quite different. In Danish I would have put a comma after "hard for me" because it...

Good stuff, I'm learning a lot here. That whole "set off with commas" deal is something I have struggled with. I haven't had any formal schooling in english since college,and there I managed to get myself expelled from english classes for over a year. I bitched loudly and often about them...

Thank you, that is most helpful.

Nits grow into lice! So keep picking. The first one is a typo, but the comma both before and after a word, has me baffled. Semicolon is not used very much in danish, so I am not in the habit of using it at all. I do know the rules governing it's usage, though, and you are right about one fitting...

I'll second Butch on this one. Please correct me, when I maul you beautiful language. One reason my english works as well as it does, is that a lot of my american friends have taken the time to correct me over the years. Anything that looks like a spelling error though, will likely be a typo. My...