two-million dollar comma

[alexxkay]

For all the language wonks on my Friends list, another object lesson about the importance of punctuation:

Different interpretations of a comma end up costing a contractor 2.13 million dollars.

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Possibly break it up into separate sentences.

[freerange-snark.livejournal.com]

Now that I finally understand that what they meant was that the comma shouldn't be there at all (see my comment below), I can safely say that breaking it up into separate sentences is a better solution still. Thanks for the help -- not being able to figure that out was making me battier than usual.