I was a soldier in that war
The Globe and Mail explains why the Oxford comma is despised, controversial, and endangered.
I will defend it to my dying breath.
posted by The Other Front at 1:46 PM
July 10, 2011
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2 Comments:
I am on your side in this war, but not without trepidations concerning the interruption of the music of the language.
I use it. I love it. I'm unable to recall an Oxford comma that would fail to correspond to an actual pause, however brief, in my speech.
As for the Globe's admittedly cherry-picked exceptions to the clarity principle: they aren't the only examples of technically grammatical dead ends that compel me to back up and start the sentence over.
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