Are you serious? You spend the time to post a 350-word rant against a couple of misplaced commas in a year old blog post on moa birds? Really?

By my account, it’s cocktail time. Please, pour, yourself, a double.

Regards,

Sue, the “comma-happy idiot”

-”New Zealand scientists have achieved the first-ever DNA reconstruction of the extinct giant moa bird, using prehistoric feathers found in caves, with the help of a visual map provided from the extraction of ancient DNA from the feathers.”
–That’s a run-on sentence. Change to: “New Zealand scientists have achieved the first-ever DNA reconstruction of the extinct giant moa bird using prehistoric feathers found in caves. The help of a visual map provided from the extraction of ancient DNA from the feathers was included.”

-”The giant moa bird, weighed about 250 kilograms and grew to 2.5 meters tall, with smaller moa species the size of modern day turkeys. ”
–Take the first comma out.

-”The obscure moa birds once roamed the forests of New Zealand, before the time of man, until they became extinct, sometime in the 1500s due to over hunting by the native Maori who appeared around 1280 AD.”
–Seriously? What is it with you sticking commas smack in the middle of the same thought? I want to know how you speak in real life. Does it, maybe, sound, something, like, this? This whole sentence is run-on failure. Change to: “The obscure moa birds once roamed the forests of New Zealand before the time of man. They became extinct sometime in the 1500s due to over hunting by the native Maori who appeared around 1280 AD.”

-”The hungry Maori, essentially ate the moa birds to extinction.”
–That’s a full sentence, take the bloody comma out. 1st grade calls for you.

-”Scientists have been able to surmise the relative size and different moa bird species from bones and fossils, but never before, have they been able to visually reconstruct a moa bird with its feathers.”
–Every sentence you write….can’t believe it. Take out the comma between “before” and “have,” it obstructs the same thought.

Thank heavens the rest is tolerable. Hope you’ve been back to English class within the last year and a half you comma-happy idiot.