Anyone for Serial?

I have to confess that I have finally become a fan of the serial comma. OK, so that sounds a little strange. But I grew up in South Africa where we weren’t taught to use the serial comma. After living and working in Israel for more than a decade, I am now an official convert. It really is a useful device which clarifies what could otherwise be confusing or misleading. What made me come to this conclusion? I had to write some Web copy recently where the company style did not include use of the serial comma. After backspacing, deleting, and agonizing over sentence structure, I realized that I like my copy with serial commas, not without.  Here’s a post about serial comma killers which proves my point. I am also a fan of another kind of cereal—the kind that goes snap, crackle, and pop.

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