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|  Message 4103  |
|  Anton Shepelev to Alexander Koryagin  |
|  Re: Grammar in the Bar  |
|  09 May 24 14:32:48  |
 MSGID: 2:221/6.0 663cb458 REPLY: 2:221/6.0 662f5380 PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 kco 20240505 NOTE: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32) CHRS: CP437 1 TZUTC: 0300 TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-03-02 Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev: AS>> (142)[Tom] An Oxford comma hops, skips, and jumps into a bar. AK> Tom's comma is probably also a yankee's comma. ;-) No AK> comma in Oxford in the list before "and". No, it is a genuine Oxford comma in mint condition, and I use it in both English and Russian. All the items of an enumeration shall be separated by commas lest the reader mistake the last two items for one combined. --- * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0) SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 SEEN-BY: 128/260 129/305 135/220 225 153/757 7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 SEEN-BY: 218/1 215 601 700 720 840 850 860 870 880 930 221/1 6 226/30 SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 SEEN-BY: 266/512 282/1038 291/111 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 335/364 SEEN-BY: 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 460/58 712/848 5020/400 1042 5075/35 PATH: 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426 |
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