Eris wrote:
On 11/18/07, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 18 November 2007, Taral wrote:
I can't find any style guides that support or even mention this
extension of the serial comma.
You're probably right, but if that humongous sentences had no commas
whatsoever, it would be ugly.
Try this:
A judicial finding is a judgement of a question on veracity
that is neither appealed within the time limit for doing so
nor sustained on appeal.
This avoids the comma issue, but has the minor drawback of getting
the concept wrong.
It's tempting to try to combine the clauses, along the lines of
A judicial finding is a judgement of a question on veracity
for which the time limit to de-assign it on appeal has expired.
but the rules in question are ill-suited for this; initiating an
appeal has a time limit after which it becomes impossible, while
resolving an initiated appeal merely has a time limit after which the
panel (and thus, by R2157, its members) can be dinged for lateness.
