Ahaahahaha. Except when some of the style rules for Org X have never been officially documented, and are only learned through word-of-mouth tribal knowledge.

That's why I said "In Theory!"

Though I think we still have a Style Council that exists to vote things off the formatting island. I'll ask everyone's heterosexual gay best friend editor on Monday.

It is so Buffista-ish to take over a delurking thread with punctuation debates.

Argggh.

Sorry, lurkers.

Please to continue delurking.

Yes! We shall still love you, even if you are wrong on the Internets not a fan of the serial comma!

Please, carry on delurking, and feel free to ignore us!

This delurker is loving the debate!

Up with the serial comma!

HA HA the lurkers support us in the thread.

My t-shirt:

"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"

HA HA the lurkers support us in the thread.

...but rarely, seldom, or never in email.

clutches serial comma and holds it tight.

;)

"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"

Newspapers have a lot of inane rules that boil down to saving column inches for the actual text and do nothing for clarity. Your point being?

"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"

That would be AWESOME.

It makes it SO much easier to identify crackpots.