Eris wrote:
On 11/18/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The serial comma's role of disambiguation can be reasonably extended
to lists of two, provided that the items in the list are sufficiently
complex. Furthermore, as demonstrated multiple times in this reply,
there are several other situations in which the use of a comma is
appropriate (though those situations may perhaps be dismissed as
irrelevant to the case above).
I can't find any style guides that support or even mention this
extension of the serial comma.
I don't know that my claim will have any formal support, but I argue
from common sense (at least it seemed so to me) that omitting the
comma would be worse. Perhaps this is an argument for moving the
two items into bulleted paragraphs, or for restructuring the sentence
in some more drastic fashion.
