The NDTV.com team has published an article titled “Comma may be abolished from English language: US academic”.

Death of the comma? One of the most commonly used elements of written English – the humble comma – could be abolished as a punctuation mark without doing much damage to the language, a US academic has suggested.

Professor John McWhorter, an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, believes that removing commas from most modern US texts would cause little loss of clarity. (more…)