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How do you feel about, inappropriate use of commas?

Touche.

I frequently go over past patient reports and reuse anything I can to save time (which equals making $$$). I discover past mistakes here and there. If I had to put a number on it, I'd guesstimate that out of every 100 pages I type (and that's character count based pages) there are probably 5 to 10 total mistakes of that nature made, i.e.: its/is, an/a, the/there, this/his. It's never critical things like lab or test results, messing up patient or doctor names, it's petty shit. Spell checker doesn't pick them up :whatever: I'm still much faster and far more accurate than any VR software (and I won't even mention outsourcing to other countries). What's funny is I make less mistakes taking dictation, probably because I can re-read while I'm typing.

Fortunately for me, people don't normally read every single letter in every single word in every single sentence.
 
For some reason I read that and was reminded of this one. Not completely unconventional punctuation but certainly enough to notice (incidentally, this is considered, by some, to be the worst poem ever published):

A Tragedy by Theophile Marzials

Death!
Plop.
The barges down in the river flop.
Flop, plop,
Above, beneath.
From the slimy branches the grey drips drop...
To the oozy waters, that lounge and flop...
And my head shrieks - "Stop"
And my heart shrieks - "Die."...
Ugh! yet I knew - I knew
If a woman is false can a friend by true?
It was only a lie from beginning to end--
My Devil - My "friend."...
So what do I care,
And my head is empty as air -
I can do,
I can dare
(Plop, plop
The barges flop
Drip, drop.)
I can dare, I can dare!
And let myself all run away with my head
And stop.
Drop
Dead.
Plop, flop,
Plop.

OMG that's hilarious. And THAT reninds me of the ALka-Seltzer commercial ;)
 
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