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violaine · 05-04-2011, 09:27 PM

[QUOTE=Nat;300026]I like wikipedia's take on it.

"There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don't, and I'll just say this, never get between these people when drink has been taken.

I am all for not ignoring the Harvard Comma.

Another source: http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxabandc.html

Softhearted · 05-05-2011, 11:17 PM

As a french speaker, I suffer from the comma syndrome... At least, that is what some of my professors told me about my papers written in english...

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