[Forum] RE: The Oxford comma

Life is just too funny without Oxford commas. I love 'em. [url=http://ooligan.pdx.edu/usage-can-be-funny-some-unintentionally-humorous-examples-of-why-the-oxford-comma-isimportant/]Some Unintentionally Humorous Examples of Why the Oxford Comma is Important[/url] My all-time favorite: [url]http

[Forum] place of publication

When a publisher lists multiple cities, and you can tell that a book was not actually published in the first-listed one, do you still list the first one in a footnote? For example, imagine an Oxford University Press book. Oxford is listed first, but the copyright page says something like "Publishe

[Forum] RE: Series with two items and the Oxford comma

I concur that it's not an Oxford comma. The Oxford comma only comes into play in a series of three or more, and this doesn't qualify. I'm not sure why you'd retain the comma after "forces," RG, if you omit the first one. It's a compound predicate (see [url=http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/c

[Forum] JFK, Stalin, and the Oxford comma all walked into a bar . . .

A coworker sent me this image today. I will forever be indebted to him. [img]http://stephentall.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/oxford-comma2.jpg[/img] You're welcome :)

[Forum] RE: Series with two items and the Oxford comma

OK, thank you both: no commas at all:-) Glad got rid of this Oxford comma for two components.

[Forum] RE: Is there a British book comparable to CMOS?

Thanks, Norwegianblue, and welcome! I now have a copy of the [i]New Oxford Style Manual[/i], which combine both [i]New Hart's Rules[/i] and [i]New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors[/i]. I expect to have lots of fun looking it over to see why the British books I have to Americanize are the wa

[Forum] RE: The Oxford comma

Does [i]CMOS[/i] recommend the Oxford comma? Yes. Must you follow [i]CMOS[/i] in this devotion? No. Having just now bowed in, I'm also bowing out.

[Forum] RE: Add Oxford comma to quoted phrase?

Here's the section you want: Permissible changes to punctuation, etc  https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed17/part2/ch13/psec007.html There is nothing there about changing punctuation to make it conform to a different standard.  Omitting the Oxford/serial comma is not incorrect. It just is

[Forum] Series with two items and the Oxford comma

[i]"They also considered [b]the movement driven by elastic forces, and the movement driven by repulsive forces,[/b] and proposed an optimization method."[/i] I think that "the smooth movement driven by elastic forces, and the violent movement driven by strong repulsive forces" can be considere

[Forum] RE: JFK, Stalin, and the Oxford comma all walked into a bar . . .

But as the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma]Wikipedia article[/url] points out, the Oxford/serial comma does not always banish confusion and may even introduce it ("To my mother, Ayn Rand, and God"). That's why the arguments about who's right on both sides are silly. Using the comm