Too many Commas...

[nq:1]What legitimate sentences could include more than a few commas? Examples? Thanks.[/nq]
It depends on your definition of "legitimate".
In the 19th century it was entirely acceptable to use more commas than we'd allow today, and you find things like this taken pretty well at random from Walford's "Old and New London" of c.1880, and referring to Clapham Common:
To this day, conseque

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[nq:1]What legitimate sentences could include more than a few commas? Examples? Thanks.[/nq]
Here's a sentence out of George Washington's Inaugural Address with eight (and one token dash):
"On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my fla

[nq:1]What legitimate sentences could include more than a few commas? Examples? Thanks.[/nq]It is, I might say, quite difficult to tell, because the term "more than a few" is rather vague, but I could try, and I will, to make a sentence, that has more commas in it than, let's say, the average sentence in this newsgroup, although, without doubt, there surely will be quite a few posts with even more

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[nq:1]What legitimate sentences could include more than a few commas? Examples?Thanks.[/nq]
Any sentence which includes a long list (such as uttered by Clement Freud on Just A Minute).
A list of towns and villages in the area I grew up in must include Glastonbury, Wells, Shepton Mallet, Street, Cheddar, Butleigh, Baltonsborough, West Pennard, East Pennar

[nq:1]What legitimate sentences could include more than a few commas? Examples?Thanks.[/nq]
In 2001, I posted this passage from How to Make Sense by Rudolf Flesch (NY, 1954):
[nq:1]Which corresponds closely to a sentence Lord Dunsany once constructed to show what printers would do to writers if they had it all their own way: "Moreover, Jones, who, as, indeed, you, probably, know, is, of co

Probably, but it still seems like there are too many commas. Luckily, there are no indisputable rules for this in English, and we can adjust things to our own liking, I think. Within reason, of course.
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[nq:2]Nowadays, we'd probably punctuate that more like: Moreover, Jones, who, ... of course Welsh, is perhaps coming too, but, unfortunately, alone.[/nq]
[nq:1]Probably, but it still seems like there are too many commas. Luckily, there are no indisputable rules for this in English, and we can adjust things to our own liking, I think. Within reason, of course.[/nq]
Surely some commas

[nq:2]Probably, but it still seems like there are too many ... to our own liking, I think. Within reason, of course.[/nq]
[nq:1]Surely some commas are indisputably necessary. In the above sentence only the one after "Welsh" strikes me as absolutely required, ... Welsh, is perhaps coming too but unfortunately alone. If I had to add one more it would be after 'too'.[/nq]
Your suggesti

[nq:2]Probably, but it still seems like there are too many ... to our own liking, I think. Within reason, of course.[/nq]
[nq:1]Surely some commas are indisputably necessary. In the above sentence only the one after "Welsh" strikes me as absolutely required,[/nq]
What I think this example shows is the changing comma standards, comparing now to fifty and a hundred years ago.
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[nq:1]On 23 May 2004, Dave wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]What legitimate sentences could include more than a few commas? Examples? Thanks.[/nq]
[nq:1]It depends on your definition of "legitimate". In the 19th century it was entirely acceptable to use more commas than ... Common" is, perhaps, one of the least changed of all spots round London, that is, so far as encroachment goes.[/nq]

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