Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, John Cowan wrote:

> Tristan McLeay scripsit:
>
> > 'Chapman, Chapman, Kwapil, Eckbald, and Zinser (1994)',
> > including the comma even though it makes it look busy :) .)
>
> I could go into a whole long rant on how utterly bogus it is to omit
> the final serial comma, but I'll just give you this dedication
> from a non-serial-comma user:
>
>         I dedicate this book to my parents, Marilyn Monroe[,] and God.
Hm, they wouldn't be such bad parents :) And I never said you should
always drop it---I often include it---just that it looks busy to my eye
there (and esp. as '(Chapman, Chapman, Kwapil, Eckbald, & Zinser, 1994)').
Skipping the comma wouldn't result in ambiguity so it should be optional.
Just because someone did something that I think is sometimes right when I
think it would've been wrong doesn't mean that I'm always wrong. (Fun
sentence :)

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