On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote:
On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote:
On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I think the article's title is missing a comma btw.
Andrei
Where?
Where could it ever be? After "parallelism".
Andrei
Actually, I specifically remember learning about this grammar rule in
middle school. When listing stuff, the comma before the "and" is
optional. Putting it and not putting it are both correct.
I see. I go by "Bugs in Writing" (awesome book) and Strunk/White. They
both recommend the comma, no ifs and buts (hard for me to get used to
because in Romanian that comma is _never_ correct).
Just googled it now, it's quite a story. Found among other things a
Wikipedia page dedicated entirely to the topic!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
Above all, it's your article, and one great thing about that is you get
to decide everything about it. A great feeling!
Andrei
