[Ads-l] Why I miss that comma

[Wilson Gray]

"Their languages were Celtic ones, today represented by Welsh, Irish and
Breton across the Channel in France."

isn't meant to be completed as something like:

"... Welsh, Irish and Breton across the Channel in France, Manx on the Isle
of Man, and Cornish in Cornwall."


Understanding that probably takes less than a nanosecond of extra mental
effort, but why is there felt a need to delay understanding by any degree
whatsoever?
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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