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Microsoft decrees that all high-school IT teachers were wrong: Double spaces now flagged as typos in Word

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Re: (brief pause)

Commas are more about readability (making the intended meaning clear), not about pauses in speech when you are reading it out. So there are conventions. In dialogue there is always a comma before the name or title of the person being directly addressed. Commas are not a breathing guide either.

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