Unamerican here who embraces the serial comma.
Ah! So the serial comma is an American institution? Is it? Or not? Because I've embraced it since I entered fanfic, but I had it drummed into me in school that one absolutely shouldn't follow a comma with an 'and'. And indeed that one shouldn't start sentences with an and; and indeed that one
should
follow semicolons with one.
In retrospect, however, that teacher was a silly cow, so why on earth I've always believed her on the handful of grammar points she bothered with escapes me.
t /natter
Oh, what the hell, there should be
more
natter in COMM.
FayJay, the Chicago Style Manual has a big ejaculation type yay!!! thing over serial commas, so I interpret it as an American thing.
Which means I do it, because I'm an academic (can't you tell?) so naturally I write for American publications because there aren't any others! (Generally speaking)
Someone -- and right now I can't remember who -- is immortalized in the BRQG as saying the reason the serial comma will never die is the following sentence: "I'd like to thank my parents, God and Ayn Rand."
She
is
a silly cow. On all those points.
Forget the anti-serial-comma! Joinnn us!
/badbadnatteriness
The god and Ayn Rand thing is sort of the classic serial comma defense. Effective, too.
DX, did you just hit the BRQG over and over until you got it?
tottering back from the BRQG, giggling madly.
Bwahahahaha! Damn, I love you. All of you. Mwah!
DX, did you just hit the BRQG over and over until you got it?
Because I still struggle with Buffista abbreviations, this is accompanied by a most wonderful graphic.
It's the Buffista Random Quote generator, aka Buff Dive. It's a lot of fun.
