> I was talking about your use of block-capitals It was obviously colloquial language. But since you were being so prickly about it, I decided to repay you in

> I was talking about your use of block-capitals It was obviously colloquial language. But since you were being so prickly about it, I decided to repay you in kind. > Look buddy, I've worked as a writer Look, buddy, you're not going to see expressions like "all the time", save from direct spoken-word quotations, in any newspaper worth its salt. > Commas are used however the writer sees fit and in the paragraph you take your third point from, they were elisions not clauses. For the comma issue I refer you to "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr., page 8: "3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas." > I generally don't waste my time picking apart peoples sentences unless someone has offered to pay me for the service, perhaps you should consider doing the same. Nor do I; I just do it when someone gets pedantic about "basic" grammar in what was obvously a colloquial expression and then proceeds to make numerous -- admittedly minor -- similar "basic" grammar mistakes. And I didn't appreciate the vindictiveness and severity vis a vis a very small abuse of all-caps.