Welcome to Lent. I haven't ever celebrated (celebrated? observed?) Lent in the past - I'm not Catholic and haven't felt that I really had any pressing sins or shortcomings that I needed to give up. This year will be different; I finally have something to give up. I was discussing the matter with Petra (who will be giving up Internet addictions this year) and she guided me toward something useful to give up.Commas.
I will refrain from using commas (or even relative clauses) for the next forty days. It hasn't even been a full day yet and I'm already going out of my mind. I never realized how much I used commas before. Try it - you'll be surprised. You'd also be surprised at how many ways there are to get around it. I've never used so many semicolons and dashes in my life.
It's going to be a long forty days. A really long forty days. I may perish from the insanity of it all.
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Now THAT is an original thing to give up. How impressive that will be if you do it the entire forty days - and I'm sure you will. Check it out: I didn't use any commas either! :)
Does this include the verbal comma?
Will you give up drunkards and SuperRamen for lent, too? Because that would be terrible.
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