[projectaon] Re: Minor errata in TMC.
- From: "G. Alex Janevski" <theinsomniac4life@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 10:45:32 -0700 (PDT)
Took the words out of my mouth on the "controversial" serial comma. In my
experience it's used more often than not, but I'm an American, and it's used
more frequently in American English than British English.
As noted in the links, most style guides do recommend it's usage. The only
context I've seen it avoided in historically is journalism, where page space
was once at a premium (those commas add up). Following a standard makes the
most sense. There are rare examples where using the comma could create
ambiguity, and a deviation could be necessary, but that's unlikely.
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From: Jonathan Blake <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Project Aon List <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2013 11:49 AM
Subject: [projectaon] Re: Minor errata in TMC.
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:58 AM, John TFS <johntfs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I understood that it's incorrect to have an "and" directly proceeded by a
> comma, so the "warfare, military construction and hunting" would be correct
> and require no changes.
It's a controversial subject in grammarian circles, but for
consistency's sake, we've adopted the serial/Oxford/Harvard comma as
house style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Sanctum/ManualOfStyle#serial-comma
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Jon
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