Comments on: The Truth about the Oxford Comma https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/05/the-truth-about-the-oxford-comma/ Sat, 27 Oct 2018 19:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Oliver Consolazio https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/05/the-truth-about-the-oxford-comma/#comment-658203 Sat, 27 Oct 2018 19:05:24 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30557#comment-658203 Check your escort’s reviews ahead of time. Unfamiliar with the escort scene in your destination, it’s a good idea to verify the quality of services offered by your prospective escort. Just like you might check out the feedback of a restaurant or club before heading there, you can look for online opinions about many escorts you find on directory sites. In your own community, you may hear opinions about escorts through the grapevine or online forums.

]]> By: Li D https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/05/the-truth-about-the-oxford-comma/#comment-647030 Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:18:03 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30557#comment-647030 Are comma type things used in other scripts and languages much? To my eyes Chinese and Japanese look like unbroken strings of characters.
Various Indian scripts? Arabic?

]]> By: thetentman https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/05/the-truth-about-the-oxford-comma/#comment-647025 Mon, 08 Oct 2018 23:49:13 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30557#comment-647025 I, prefer, the, William, Shatner, comma.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/05/the-truth-about-the-oxford-comma/#comment-644654 Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:29:05 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30557#comment-644654 In reply to Bernard J..

Do you know about the rules for authorship of screenplays, TV scripts, etc?

And, &, with, commas, and other connectors have very specific meanings.

For example, the 1996 move The Rock was written by Douglas Cook & David Weisberg and Mark Rosner.

I think that means Cook and Weisberg share top credit, and also, Rosner helped as second author.

Scary Movie 06, on the other hand, was writng by Mazin & Abrahams & Proft.

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/05/the-truth-about-the-oxford-comma/#comment-644640 Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:56:19 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30557#comment-644640 I’m a bit passionate about Oxford commas. I do sometimes omit them however, when I’m tweeting and I have run not out of lead but out of character space. I use the same rule as Greg – if the meaning is clear, I sacrifice the comma. If not I’ll go through and replace ‘and’ with an ampersand, or (shudder) ditch a double-space after a full-stop/period.

And semicolons – well, they are the tattoos of punctuation.

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