punctuation

30 June 2011

Devastating Oxford comma update

oxford comma

The University of Oxford Style Guide has dropped Oxford commas. It’s a dark day. “As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’. But when a comma would assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity, it can be…Read More

19 January 2010

A Democracy of Sarcasm

Sarcasm Inc., a company that apparently exists, has developed a new punctuation mark to denote the use of sarcasm.