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>>Tomte+(OP)
Not to detract from the message here, but

> It may just be a game to you but, it means the world to us

The placement of that comma really irks me. Isn't "It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us" the grammatically correct form? I'm somewhat surprised to see this in official communication from the Canadian Red Cross group.

I feel like I've seen this "post-but" comma more and more recently. I guess people feel like they would speak the sentence with a pause after the conjunction and therefore the comma goes there in writing.

>>tines+23
Correct it does go before the conjunction, and an optional one after if you want to draw a pause.

>>chomp+U3
No, no optional one after. A comma shouldn't ever be used to "draw a pause" in English. It needs to break up logical fragments of a sentence.

If you want to indicate a pause to show how you want it read you can use an ellipses (...).