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.
Posted by Rob on Monday, August 07, 2006
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Heh! It's nice to see that what I do matters. "Hire a copyediter, it's cheaper in the long run!"
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.
Interesting!
I've heard of the similar storys before.
my teachers often inculcate us with this kind of cases that the importantance of punctuation.
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