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Subject:Comma, comma, ever more comma From:Mark Levinson <mark -at- SD -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Wed, 10 May 1995 15:40:32 IDT
"He always used to tell us kids, 'Don' break yer crackers,
bread, biscuits or roll in yer soup'."
** I don't buy it. The comma never makes the list harder to read
or more ambiguous. The above sentence means the same thing with
or without a comma before "or". If there were another "or"
before "biscuits", the sentence would mean something different.
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