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I’m running grammar check on a story, Vanessa’s Affair, and there’s a line from a passage where she is enjoying her husband’s company after violating her marriage vows. The line currently reads:
God, and Vanessa loved it.
It was suggested I remove the comma:
God and Vanessa loved it.
I’m pretty sure that would be incorrect. If anything, I would propose God would be indifferent. I mean, God has better things to do than hang out in the bedrooms of perverts.
Antoinette M-- 
“Let’s eat Grandma!”
Leaving out a comma can leave all sorts of strange impressions. ;/
I will never get tired of examples where comma usage changes the sentence. I dunno, maybe I’m easily amused.
I love your blog! Leaving academia for erotica……that’s a fantastic adventure. I’ll be reading more!
Thanks! Yes, it is crazy. I instructed my coworkers to tell my replacement: She left to write SMUT!
Gotta love grammar check. The auto-correct thingys drive me crazy until I remember to turn them off. This reminded me of the inflection passage, “I didn’t say he beats his wife.”
I keep adding words to the dictionary. Probably tells you a lot about my vocabulary.
Just one of the many examples why English is so much fun for non-native speakers.
The dictionary needs more words. 😉
I’m on Reddit a lot, and there are users from all the world. I’ve picked up a lot of random slang, cunny being among my favorites. I think that’s Australian for, well, you know. I think Madame de Sevigne referred to it as the “Turkish place”.
One can only hope that God is too busy with other stuff to correct grammar.