Syntactic heresies OR Clearly there's something wrong with me

[learnedax]

I opened up Eats, Shoots & Leaves, and I do not make it through the acknowledgments before snidely thinking to myself "Oh, the author's one of those grammarians." Which is to say, she has not seen the light and so does not use the serial comma. Apparently that inelegant ambiguity is more tolerated in her native Britain, however, which I should perhaps take as an extenuating circumstance.

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[laurion]

Hey, if it's good enough for Oxford (Britain), and Harvard (old enough to be British), it's good enough for me. It's such a small use of ink, and goes very far in the disambiguation of sentence meaning. Optional, perhaps, but practial in the extreme.