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Re: Comma, Comma, Comma (Should we or Shouldn't we)
Subject:Re: Comma, Comma, Comma (Should we or Shouldn't we) From:Loren Castro <lfc -at- SOL -dot- CHINALAKE -dot- NAVY -dot- MIL> Date:Tue, 9 May 1995 12:17:26 -0700
This response drifts from the original subject as seems normal. I'm
really responding to someone's statement about consistency. I wish I
had the original statement, which contained a quotation, but I deleted
it before starting to feel annoyed.
Inconsistency in technical writing is a terrible disservice to our
readers. For example, using the final comma in a series inconsistently
is worse than not using it at all. If that makes me small minded (or
whatever the quotation had to say), I can live with it.
