On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 21:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [ . . . ] > 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).
The "bibles" in this situation are "The Oxford Style Manual" and "The Chicago Manual of Style", everything else is mere commentary. :-) Romanian is not English, rules do not transfer ;-) > 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 Since when has the "Oxford Comma" been known as the "Harvard Comma". Never. Pah. > Above all, it's your article, and one great thing about that is you get > to decide everything about it. A great feeling! Except when the sub-editors impose the publisher's choices. Of course they always work to either "The Oxford Style Manual" or "The Chicago Manual of Style", so the moral is to buy one of them and work to it. http://www.suite101.com/content/the-chicago-manual-of-style-vs-the-oxford-style-manual-a267432 Also "The Oxford Style Manual" is smaller and cheaper as well as being better. And of course English, whereas "The Chicago Manual of Style" is just American English. I shall now duck to avoid the spamming that this troll will invoke. :-) -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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