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.")
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
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........)
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)
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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