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Hi, Anton!  Recently you wrote in a message to Alexander Koryagin:

AS>  [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".

AS>  No, it is a genuine Oxford comma in mint condition, and I
AS>  use it in both English and Russian.  All the items of an
AS>  enumeration shall be separated by commas lest the reader
AS>  mistake the last two items for one combined.

     
        Nicely put.  I use the Oxford comma for the same reason.

        I'm interested to hear that one can also employ it in Russian....  :-)




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