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darcy log...

M$1 December 15, 2008 12:22 AM

Would you be willing to join the "Save Serial Commas Association" (SSCA)?

I've decided to start my own association to save the serial comma from...well...serial killer sites that have banned them. These sites, which shall remain nameless, are following AP style and not using them. They don't seem to care that the ONLY reason AP style dropped the comma was to save ink and space (which are irrelevant in cyberspace). This is not a problem online, yet so many online sites follow AP style blindly like lemmings to a cliff. If we don't stop them, who knows what they will take away from us next?

To find out more about this horrible crime, check out the following sites:
http://brendacoulter.blogspot.com/2006/02/serial-comma-killers.html
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/021201SerialComma.htm

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carriep

December 15, 2008 02:40 AM

I'm willing to join mind, body, and soul.

I believe that dropping the serial comma has the potential to cause a lot of confusion in written language.

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jennybeans...

December 15, 2008 02:02 AM

Personally, I was educated in a way that did not incorporate serial commas into lists, so I do not even think about them that often. As I was majoring in English Literature, it was often hard to keep up with professors that expected you to use the serial comma and the ones who didn't want it used, so now that I am free of the educational yolk, I do not use them.

I'd be more interested in saving things like the actual English language at this point, which I fear faces disintegration with the increase in avid texting and IMing.

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