Annoying Punctuation

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realisticspeakers
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Post by realisticspeakers »

Either by OCR error, copy-writing mistake, or misjudgement by the author/editor this, comma is by far the most annoying.
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And the worst part is, you don't even know who to be mad at!
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Post by SonOfTheExiles »

I trust only Victor Borge's phonetic punctuation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ91SVKryYU

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Post by maxgal »

SonOfTheExiles wrote: December 12th, 2020, 8:48 pm I trust only Victor Borge's phonetic punctuation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ91SVKryYU

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