Fri, November 21, 2008
In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last. I'm noticing violations of this more and more. Clean it up, people!
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Bee Boy — Sun, 6/14/09 6:39pm
The book I'm currently reading shares my predilection for making its points with three illustrative examples (or three semi-contrasting adjectival phrases to narrow the descriptive focus), but does not follow this rule. It's becoming a huge distraction, because now I notice it every time, and in my head I pronounce it the way it looks – which is to group the last two terms wrongly together.
I recently added a comma to fix a violation like this on a web site I'd been hired to code and got e-mail from the client to take it back out. So maybe I'm hypersensitive since that travesty, but damn, these bug the hell out if me.