[Ads-l] Oxford comma

[Martin Purdy]

That's one reason I don't believe in being a "100-percenter" when it comes to either favouring or avoiding the Oxford comma.  It isn't standard in my version of English but it has its uses in avoiding ambiguity.
Martin 
 

    On Sunday, September 1, 2024 at 09:56:56 AM GMT+12, James Landau <00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:  
 
 Sign in a local gym:
"Lunk (n) someone who grunts, drops weights or judges"
I'm afraid that I try to interpret this as "drops weight or drops judges", that is, the verb-noun following the comma suggests verb-noun-same verb-noun.
James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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