2arrs2ells: pablog: I prefer the serial comma. My employer still does not. nicksummers: Aux barricades! Style rules adjusting to the web? What’s the temperature in hell these days? I thought that was a grammatical thing rather than style? Like in a will, if you wrote, “I leave everything to Betsy, Tacy and Tib,” that could be (and actually was, I think?) interpreted in court as, “I leave half to Betsy. Tacy and Tib should split the other half.” That serial comma is grammatically mandatory!

2arrs2ells:

pablog:

I prefer the serial comma. My employer still does not.

nicksummers:

Aux barricades!

Style rules adjusting to the web? What’s the temperature in hell these days?

I thought that was a grammatical thing rather than style? Like in a will, if you wrote, “I leave everything to Betsy, Tacy and Tib,” that could be (and actually was, I think?) interpreted in court as, “I leave half to Betsy. Tacy and Tib should split the other half.” That serial comma is grammatically mandatory!