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Gramatical Error in Private Messaging

  • @vegasparty607

    Participant

    13 years, 8 months ago

    When you message three people, here is what is says:

    Sent between %name%, %name% and %name%

    There should be a comma after the second name:

    Sent between %name%, %name%, and %name%

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  • @hnla

    Participant

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Not necessarily. In what version of English do you write? The tendency to add the comma before the word ‘and’ is, as far as I recall, an Americanism; in English English you wouldn’t have the last comma the ‘and’ makes it redundant.

    @vegasparty607

    Participant

    13 years, 8 months ago

    In proper English grammar there is a comma.

    `Joe, Bill, and Phil went to the store.`

    @hnla

    Participant

    13 years, 8 months ago

    No not necessarily – he said once again :)

    Look it up or am I being rude and in fact you’re an English teacher in which case I’ll shut up ;)

    @aces

    Participant

    13 years, 8 months ago

    I don’t think it should have a second comma in the UK….

    @vegasparty607

    Participant

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Look it up or am I being rude and in fact you’re an English teacher in which case I’ll shut up

    ???

    http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm

    @djpaul

    Keymaster

    13 years, 8 months ago

    If you lot want to argue spelling, or grammar, or punctuation, do it on your own blogs or another discussion forum. Not here.

    My only comment will be that I do not view this as an error. This may be a British/American English thing, but I’m certainly not well-informed enough.

    @vegasparty607

    Participant

    13 years, 8 months ago

    I’m not arguing. I’m just saying you have a grammatical error, but obviously you don’t want to fix it.

    @djpaul

    Keymaster

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Closing topic. This is not the place to argue about grammatical syntax in English language.

    @hnla

    Participant

    13 years, 8 months ago

    @DJPaul spoilsport :p

    @vegasparty607 erm yes and that link is to an American educational resource! try looking up a general one and you will find that there are exceptions and differences to the use or not of a comma and ‘and’ :)

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