Saturday, February 09, 2013
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- I was born in 1962; you do the math. (See also: I'm too lazy to remember to update this thing regularly.) I bought my first house in the summer of 2009; I share it with four cats and with the memories of The Runt and Little Girl, who both passed away in 2011. Rocky, the cat for whom this blog was named, passed away in 2008; I miss them all. I wish I lived somewhere where the winters weren't eight months long; other than that, life is good.
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5 comments:
Re: the comma - It depends which style you follow. AP style (newspapers, magazines) omit the comma before "and," but MLA style (academics) keeps the comma there. I like the comma for this reason: http://robdyoung.com/oxford-commas-the-strippers-jfk-and-stalin/
Can't wait to read about the sports bra!
Authors of style books have been disagreeing about this forever. I like a comma after every item in a list (except the last item) because it makes it clear that they are all separate items in the list. Anything that improves clarity has to be good, right?
...Besides, when you read a list you pause after the penultimate item, right? Therefore, there should be a comma.
And the comma in this usage has a name - it's the Oxford comma...and I remove it everywhere I can :-)
Kris
Kate, I love the stripper reference!
Personally, I like that last comma. Why separate every item but the last?
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