comma Soma I see that we will be enemies. Very well. To the semicolons I go; to em dashes (or other such dashes) and parentheses – those staples of additional thinking – I will turn. 231204 ... raze could it be a browser issue? i've noticed some things (like curly quotation marks, and apostrophes, and sometimes even the em_dash) are prone to turning into odd symbols with firefox, but there's nothing amiss when i'm using opera or chrome or safari. 231204 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Speaking of little things bothering me (as in intrusive_thoughts), there's a comma missing in what's supposed to be the final draft of my poetry chapbook. I just saw it now. Approximation: If an "if" begins a sentence, you're supposed to have a comma after its clause closes. Here is a stanza in between to show that the two "if"s do not occur in succession. If another stanza is missing a comma at least I have a line break, but I fear it looks bad because the other "if"-starting stanza has a comma and this one doesn't. The thing is, this is the third version of the file, and I fear I'd annoy the 2nd editor, the one doing the formatting, if I insisted on him changing it, so I'll just leave it as a reminder of imperfection. 250902 what's it to you? who go blather from