Tannhauser ([info]spyinthehaus) wrote,
@ 2005-02-22 23:23:00
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RIP Eleanor Gould...
Patron saint of readers, copy editors and pedants.

(Now, should there have been a comma after "editors"?)

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[info]prayinmantis
2005-02-22 04:23 pm UTC (link)
i vote yes, but i tend to be a little bit comma-happy. sometimes it can technically go either way and those times i'm for a comma.

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[info]halonine
2005-02-23 08:00 pm UTC (link)
Hi... whether there is a comma in that situation depends on the policy of the publication. A lot of publications have dropped the comma before the conjunction in a simple series like "readers, copy editors and pedants."

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[info]myshkin
2005-02-23 09:30 pm UTC (link)
My understanding is that there is some great cultural divide concerning the use of commas in lists. I was brought up with the idea that the penultimate item never receives a comma, and that seems to be the traditional English English rule, to which we down here in New Zealand have clung. The American way was to be far more profligate - an attitude which is having something of a showdown with the older way.

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