English is a strange language and often seems to be made up mostly of other languages. There are lots of loanwords in English. Fancy some sushi? Maybe a hamburger or a croissant? Let’s set the food examples aside and focus on something more intrinsically interesting: the Latin phrase “per se. Do you need a …
Comma before per se
Introduction A well-known rhetoric tool is an anaphora which is the strategic repetition of word sequence that drives emphasis. In particular, reflexive pronouns such as “itself” and “themselves” are probably some of the most commonly used anaphoric words in everyday English. “Per se” is an anaphorical Latin phrase that roughly means “by itself” which is …