Post by SteveskiPost by Sam PlusnetPost by v***@gmail.comAdam lays down his conditions and Kirsty over promises
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Post by Sam PlusnetShouldn't there be some punctuation in there?
Adam lays down his conditions, and Kirsty, over promises.
Adam lays down his conditions, and Kirsty over-promises.
Not unless you're an advocate of the Oxford comma.
I agree with Sam that some punctuation would improve clarity; the
_first_ suggested comma there is not an Oxford one. (I am an advocate of
it, anyway; to me, its absence always implies an unintended connection
between the last two members of a list - and it always puzzled me how
its absence became the norm.)
And I do see the humour in one of the above versions too!
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)***@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
… too popular actually to be any good. - Alison Graham in Radio Times 2-8
February 2013