Posted on 03/16/2017 1:41:39 PM PDT by RummyChick
Good grammar- it’s the law!
I use the two “grandma” statements as an example of why commas are so important. A comma can save a life!
Me too! The semicolon, however, is the transvestite of punctuation.
Thank the AP style book for that. The Chicago Manual of Style sill keeps it, I think.
Sill = Still
Yes it did and I remember one from junior high.
A anti-czarist was convicted of a crime. His wife appealed.
The letter from the judge said
Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia
It was intercepted and changed to read
Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia
“In this case the series is an ‘or’ series, but the same rules apply as for an ‘and’ series....but at least it explains why there is not ‘and’.”
I’m not sure what you mean by that.
“Here is the problem: “storing, packing for shipment or distribution of: “ shipment or distribution. the truckers are the distribution, but the absence of the comma after ‘shipment’ changes the meaning from “packing for shipping” and “distribution” to “packing for (either) shipment or distribution”, not distribution itself, hence the ruling.”
Yes I saw that when I read the article, which is why I said that everyone is so focused on the issue of the comma they missed that the “and” which comes later in the exemption should be an “or”, which is an even greater error than the comma.
List can be inclusive in which case they will conclude their last item with "and", our the can be exclusive in which case they would end with last item separated with "or." Inclusive requires all must be done, while exclusive implies if any in the list is done. The court is wrong.
On the other hand is it morally right to over work people just because they work with perishable goods and their employer refuses to hire sufficient help to get the job done in a reasonable work day? This law incentivizes the employer to overwork his employees because he does not have to pay overtime wages or hire an additional employee.
our the can be exclusive. . . = or the list can be exclusive. . .
I have no clue what happened there.
My mom taught me not to use the Oxford comma but I think I like it.
I only use the Oxford comma when I feel that otherwise there might be confusion. For example, I wouldn’t write the dedication “To my parents, Ayn Rand and God.”
This is an outrageous ruling. If the lack of an Oxford comma was meant to convey that it was “packing for shipment or distribution” of perishables that was exempt, not “packing for shipment” of perishables and “distribution” of perishables that both were exempt, then there would have had to have been an “or” prior to “packing for shipment or distribution” to signify that it was the end of the list. That First Circuit panel must have been composed of illiterates (slight hyperbole on my part).
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