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BenVallejo
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Oxford comma
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August 21, 2011, 12:27:13 PM »
What do you think of initiatives to do away with the serial comma a.k.a as the Oxford comma?
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Joe Carillo
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August 21, 2011, 06:03:13 PM »
I am a consistent user of the serial comma in both my private correspondence and published work, so I think the growing practice of doing away with it is ill-advised. I gave my reasons for sticking with it in “Why I consistently use the serial comma,” an essay that I wrote for my English-usage column in
The Manila Times
in July of 2009. I subsequently posted that essay here in the Forum in December of 2010. You may want to check it out by clicking this link to
“Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference.”
Long live the serial comma!
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