How much does a comma cost?

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A woman touring Europe cabled her husband the following message: "Have found a wonderful bracelet. Price seventy-five thousand dollars. May I buy it?"
Her husband immediately responded with the message: "No, price too high."
However, the telegraph operator missed the one small detail in his transmission - the signal for a comma  after the word "No."
She received the following reply: "No price too high."  Elated by the good news, she bought the bracelet.  When she returned to the U.S. and showed the new bracelet to her shocked husband, he filed a lawsuit against the telegraph company - and won!
 
Czar Alexander III personally dictated  the death sentence of a prisoner with the following words: "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia."
His wife, Dagmar (Daughter of Christian IX, King of Denmark) believed him to be innocent and wrote the following: "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia."
 
An English professor wrote these words - "Woman without her man is nothing." - on the blackboard and asked the class to punctuate it correctly.
The men wrote: "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
The women wrote "Woman: without her, man is nothing."

Microwaved Tofu! · Accepted Answer

$12,000.94

tebonz · Answer

A comma costs 14 dollars and 9 cents



Answer= $14.19

? · Answer

In Canada a misplaced comma in a contract to string utility poles cost a company $2.13 million. They say "the devil is in the details".

99% Tater says: TAX THE RICH! · Answer

Priceless.

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aries303 · Answer

It costs ranging from women's emotions to filing a lawsuit to loss of one's life. Comas do cost much more, no doubt.

åniså · Answer

Those are cute stories, but stories is all they are. None of them are true. 

Here's a link to some history of these old legends:

http://www.snopes.com/language/mistakes/noprice.asp

Lynxy · Answer

More than one would like to admit.

lennyleonard876 · Answer

comma comma comma comma comma chamelion. its a song

Dizz · Answer

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