Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2019 March 27

= March 27 =

Commas around ‘thus credited’
Is the punctuation correct in the last sentence of Ary Abramovich Sternfeld article?
 * [...] He is, thus credited, for introducing the word cosmonautics in the language of science and engineering.

CiaPan (talk) 17:15, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * No; the commas should be deleted. Something is set off like that only if it is a parenthetical element in the sentence. Since removing "thus credited" from the sentence leaves a meaningless construction, it clearly isn't parenthetical. Deor (talk) 17:23, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. --76.69.46.228 (talk) 18:17, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. :) I was going to clean up that myself, but had to go off-line for some time. --CiaPan (talk) 08:05, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It is, correct, if, William Shatner, said it. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:22, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Except it would need,, pairs,, of commas. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:38, 28 March 2019 (UTC)