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- Subject: Re: Thoughts on optional commas
- From: Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 00:56:48 +0100
On Mar 4, 2012, at 12:39 AM, Christopher Berardi wrote:
> Do you leave commas out of lists when you write normally?
Oh, my… I was just waiting for someone to bring Lynne Truss into the conversation…
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage.
The panda pauses on his way out, produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual, and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation:
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
