TIL - Commas
Sep. 19th, 2025 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brickhousewenchToday I learned a few tidbits about commas.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/15/the-big-idea-ian-randal-strock/
The editor, however, was operating under the strict interpretation of the Associated Press Stylebook, which seems to be waging its battle against punctuation (a carry-over, perhaps, from its use for newspapers, in which saving typographical space is of paramount importance). That, too, is why the serial (or Oxford) comma has all but disappeared from news reporting.
So glad that I don't have to follow the AP Stylebook, because I like to sprinkle commas where I think they are needed. And yes, you can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Also, I had to google the word "majuscules", so add another new gem to my vocabulary.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/15/the-big-idea-ian-randal-strock/
The editor, however, was operating under the strict interpretation of the Associated Press Stylebook, which seems to be waging its battle against punctuation (a carry-over, perhaps, from its use for newspapers, in which saving typographical space is of paramount importance). That, too, is why the serial (or Oxford) comma has all but disappeared from news reporting.
So glad that I don't have to follow the AP Stylebook, because I like to sprinkle commas where I think they are needed. And yes, you can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Also, I had to google the word "majuscules", so add another new gem to my vocabulary.
