Let's hear it for Red, White, and Blue
I was alarmed, befuddled, and fiberglasted earlier in the week when one of my grammar-nerd familiars said that Oxford University had abandoned the Oxford comma. Say it ain't so, oh ye font of adherence to the Mother Tongue!
Turns out, it isn't so--or not entirely. They've abandoned the serial comma in their style guide for press releases. But they retain it in the style guide for scholarly work. Is this part of the trend of elites pandering to the ill-informed masses? I suspect that it is. So sad.
I was alarmed, befuddled, and fiberglasted earlier in the week when one of my grammar-nerd familiars said that Oxford University had abandoned the Oxford comma. Say it ain't so, oh ye font of adherence to the Mother Tongue!
Turns out, it isn't so--or not entirely. They've abandoned the serial comma in their style guide for press releases. But they retain it in the style guide for scholarly work. Is this part of the trend of elites pandering to the ill-informed masses? I suspect that it is. So sad.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/06/commas
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