You know you have acclimated when...
1. A cloudy day is such a suprise that you want to discuss it with people
2. You start to recognize the individual lizards and hummingbirds that live in your yard
3. People stop you on the street and ask you for directions... and you can answer!
4. You reach for the green chili before the catsup
posted by Dora @ 2:08 PM
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2 Comments:
I am enjoying your blog - comma question- the last comma is optional and is called the Harvard comma. Can you believe it? Guess who I learned that from. I hope he wasn't kidding. Actually, I believe I saw that in print.
Never let it be said that anonymous is not a smart woman... she's right folks. Here's what Wikipedia says about that last comma: The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma) is the comma used immediately before a grammatical conjunction (nearly always and or or) that precedes the last item in a list of three or more items. The phrase "ham, chips, and eggs" is an example that is written with the serial comma, while "ham, chips and eggs" is identical in meaning, but does not include the serial comma.
There is much disagreement about the use of the serial comma. It is nearly standard use in American English [1], but much less common in British English [2] (see extended treatment of this below, including a survey of published recommendations in Usage and subsequent sections). The serial comma is not used in French, Spanish, German, or other main Indo-European languages.
The terms "Oxford comma" and "Harvard comma" come from Oxford University Press and Harvard University Press, where use of the serial comma is the house style.
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