No serial, it's often redundant to "and."
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Oct 23, 2006 9:13:19 am PDT #5020 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2006 9:15:27 am PDT #5021 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My former boss used to fastidiously remove my Oxford commas because they were wrong, telling me she could see how I'd make that mistake, having been educated in England.
Which meant I even more fastidiously put them in.
vw bug - Oct 23, 2006 9:15:39 am PDT #5022 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
it's often redundant to "and."
But, it's so much prettier.
Zenkitty - Oct 23, 2006 9:18:42 am PDT #5023 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I like serial commas. Sometimes I leave them out, to prove that I can change, but then I have to grit my teeth and go back and obsessively put them in.
Jesse - Oct 23, 2006 9:18:48 am PDT #5024 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yay, serial commas!!
My organization's tagline does not have one, which makes me sad and/or cranky.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 23, 2006 9:19:37 am PDT #5025 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Comma comma comma comma comma chameleon...
Steph L. - Oct 23, 2006 9:20:42 am PDT #5026 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
SERIAL COMMAS 4 EVAH!!!!1!
Here's the story...of the dying TV theme song
Shows such as ‘Lost,’ ‘Grey's Anatomy’ are cutting straight to the plot...
“It’s a rarity today,” TV historian Tim Brooks said of the catchy, tuneful opening. “It’s kind of like the Broadway musical producing hit songs — it just doesn’t do that anymore.”
I place the blame squarely where it belongs: Firefly.
Toddson - Oct 23, 2006 9:21:18 am PDT #5027 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Yay for serial commas.
I have imposed them on our monthly journal. Fear me!
Nilly - Oct 23, 2006 9:23:55 am PDT #5028 of 10001
Swouncing
In "serial comma" you mean a comma that comes before the word "and", like in Nutty's example from above, "I'd like to thank my parents, G-d and Ayn Rand", that makes so much mroe sense if it's "I'd like to thank my parents, G-d, and Ayn Rand" and not as if Ayn Rand suddenly mothered a kid with some holy spirit, right?
Hmm. I don't do anything like that in Hebrew (even though the very same problem can be created), but in English they seem to me to look OK. Probably because no grammar teacher in the 9th grade ever told me not to, I imagine.
-t - Oct 23, 2006 9:25:44 am PDT #5029 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I learned that serial commas were correct in elementary school, but wrong in high school. I am inconsistent in my usage.
I have grown to cherish the quick title sequences since Six Feet Under abused theirs so heinously. The best is Scrubs, I think, with the catchy but short theme song. Though The Sopranos is just about perfect, title sequence-wise, in general shorter is better.