Monday, August 7, 2006

Watch your punctuation!

My friend Don Wilkat drew this to my attention, from today's Globe and Mail -- one misplaced comma in a contract that ended up costing a company millions of dollars.


4 Comments:

At August 07, 2006 3:22 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Heh! It's nice to see that what I do matters. "Hire a copyediter, it's cheaper in the long run!"

 
At August 07, 2006 5:30 PM , Blogger E.Jim Shannon said...

Maybe Rogers should have used a semi colin instead near the beginning of the sentence or make each sentence an independent clause. I'm not that keen on grammar but again I'm not a Billion dollar company like Rogers.

 
At August 08, 2006 10:10 PM , Anonymous skyfire said...

Interesting!
I've heard of the similar storys before.
my teachers often inculcate us with this kind of cases that the importantance of punctuation.

 
At August 15, 2006 11:27 AM , Anonymous Richard Strang said...

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