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To: RummyChick

I believe in the Oxford comma.

How we moved away from using it is beyond me.


2 posted on 03/16/2017 1:43:30 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: ConservativeMind

I thought it was the law, after “eats, shoots, and leaves”.


3 posted on 03/16/2017 1:46:33 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: ConservativeMind

I guess the 5th circuit believes in Bad Comma............


5 posted on 03/16/2017 1:52:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: ConservativeMind
"I believe in the Oxford comma."

Me too! The semicolon, however, is the transvestite of punctuation.

23 posted on 03/16/2017 4:20:04 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: ConservativeMind

Thank the AP style book for that. The Chicago Manual of Style sill keeps it, I think.


24 posted on 03/16/2017 4:31:29 PM PDT by Mugwump
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