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Why would we say that?
There's a comma, we say comma. Otherwise would be confusing.
There’s a period in English, but we don’t say period. We say point.
I was wondering about French because they also have the word “point”, but looking it up they say “and” or sometimes “comma”.
A point is a dot though. Isn't it? In spanish "punto" means "dot". It probably comes from latin.
In portuguese point and period are the same word "ponto"