On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 6:06:58 PM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 6/27/2018 9:59 AM, wrote:
> > Sqwertz wrote:
> >> jmcquown wrote:
> >>
> >>> No one, other than a teacher, actually cares
> >>> about dangling participles.
> >>
> >> If it dangles, Sheldon does.
> >
> > I see 3 superfluous commas.
> >
> Time for you to go back to school.
>
> Jill

Perhaps. I might have used dashes (or parentheses) for a pair of those commas,
to convey the pauses you heard in your mind when you wrote it. However, if
I found such a construction in a book I was copy editing, I would restructure
the sentence:

Other than a teacher, no one actually cares about dangling participles.

Factually incorrect, as the dangling participle can lead to misunderstanding,
but I'd posit that very few people care about dangling participles. Most
human brains can figure out from context what noun the dangling participle
was intended to modify.

In any event, it's foolish to correct people's grammar on Usenet, unless
they have the sentence so twisted up that nobody can understand it.

Cindy Hamilton