Give comma another chance

An 8th-century text with punctuation, St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 229

Punctuation was made for man, not man for punctuation.

There is no general consensus over how punctuation works. The jury is still out on the Oxford comma; is the semicolon about semantics or aesthetics? And don't get me started on the suspension points: ellipsis or Hitchco…