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		falsestprophet on July 30, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YC Alum: Help Me Get a YC Interview for winter 09 You need to get your commas under control.

wtrk on July 31, 2008 [–]

He used two commas in his post and they demarcated a parenthetical phrase.

falsestprophet on Aug 1, 2008 | [–]

They did not. "And I try to get better at it everyday," is not a parenthetical phrase. It is a parenthetical phrase and the conjunction "and."

His writing is both stylistically weak and grammatically incorrect. There is no good excuse for overreaching.

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