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Thread #162315   Message #3862623
Posted By: Steve Shaw
24-Jun-17 - 02:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: the Oxford comma
Subject: RE: BS: the Oxford comma
A good few years ago now I used to submit articles to an American music publication (I'd better not give any more details!) and the editor obsessively inserted huge numbers of commas into my pieces. He made me look like an illiterate twit and in the end I had to threaten to stop writing for him.

Just to illustrate, I'll now redo the above in the style he might have employed:

A good few years ago, now, I used to submit articles, to an American music publication, (I'd better not give any more details!), and the editor, obsessively, inserted huge numbers of commas, into my pieces. He made me look like, an illiterate twit, and, in the end, I had to threaten, to stop writing for him.