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The return of the final serial comma’s vital necessity
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Morendil
on Oct 23, 2010
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ljosa
on Oct 23, 2010
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Must have been a comma-law marriage.
klodolph
on Oct 23, 2010
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I grew to dislike the AP style guide, which proscribes the final serial comma. Of course you may rearrange the sentence, "Kris Kristofferson, his two ex-wives and Robert Duvall" but then one wonders if they are Kristofferson's wives.
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