[email protected] writes:
> In googling today, I learned that the AP style guide (used by entities like, > well, the Associated Press ;-) considers it obsolete. > > The Chicago Manual of Style (used by entities like book publishers and > (some?) > educators (iiuc) still requires it. > interesting. i just asked my son kyron who recently completed his masters in musicology: http://www.towardsfreedom.com/ictvity/music/kyron-recitals/ he says he uses it all the time especially since the alternative invites ambiguity, so certainly his department has no issues with it. > Which brings up my next question (which may already be answered by virtue of > the name "Oxford comma" -- I wonder what the rule is in the UK? Although I > am > an American, I often recognize Americans as, hmm, what should I say -- always > looking for a short cut -- the easy way out, so I'd guess that it is still > required (recommended?) in the UK. > quite possibly. we are colonists living in the north pole (ie canada), so we should follow the uk as fine colonists ought to. personally, i prefer many of the american shortcuts eg neighbor instead of neighbour, aluminum instead of aloomeeneeum etc ... instead of et cetera! i always set my computer to english-us. i realize doing this may offend inhabitants of the island nation, some of whom are still convinced that the sun never sets on their empire, but since we live on vancouver island, we consider ourselves to be separate from the rest of canada, the uk and even the north pole. > On the other hand, those in the UK have developed the shortcut of not > pronouncing the "h" sound ;-) (Maybe that's only as the first letter of a > word? > -- they do have "shedules" ;-) > i have no idea how anyone ever manages to learn english. and that accent! i say rather really!! admittedly the british accent is elegant, compared to the droll canajian - that our own northtrop frye akins to the honking of the canada goose (no offense to geese intended), but to the point of incomprehensibility! we brought over one of that island's inhabitants some years ago and put her through music school: http://www.towardsfreedom.com/ictvity/music/angelkate-rose-channel/ she's been in the colony for nearly a decade and i still can't understand what she's saying. -- In friendship, prad _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
