A conversation:

[virtuistic]

Me: Serial commas! Ugh!!!
Sandy: What?
Me: You know, serial commas? When you have a list of three or more items, the serial comma is the one before the "and." Some publications don't use it, but ours does.
Sandy: Thank God! I hate it when people don't do that! It's so confusing, 'cause what if you have an item in the list that has an "and" in

Comments

[halieee]

we don't use serial commas because we save something like eight barrels of ink a year by not using them.

[virtuistic]

WHATEVER, MAN. Clarity is at stake!

Plus, when it's a 500 word crappy essay... you might as well. The reader is already swimming in a sea of confusion. It's only humane to take some pity.

[greyduck]

I'm amused by the mental image of a victory garden consisting of punctuation marks in pots and planters...

[virtuistic]

As you should be. XD