Subj : Re: Grammar in the Bar
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Gleb Hlebov
Date : Sun May 12 2024 00:05:52

Hi Alexander!

On 11.05.24, Alexander Koryagin wrote:

>  AS>>> (142)[Tom] An Oxford comma hops, skips, and jumps into a bar.
>  AK>> Tom's comma is probably also a yankee's comma. ;-) No comma in
>  AK>> Oxford in the list before "and".
> 
>  AS> No, it is a genuine Oxford comma in mint condition, and I use it in
>  AS> both English and Russian. All the items of an enumeration shall be
>  AS> separated by commas lest the reader mistake the last two items for
>  AS> one combined.
> 
> What do they say in England? They say that in a list "and" is a substitute for a comma.
> Read for instance
> https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/comma/listing
> and find commas before "and".

American English punctuation varies slightly from that in the UK -- that's not news to us.
And you're not expecting American IT folks say "informatics", are you? :-)


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