Subject: Re: [xsl] starts-with on more than one item From: Michael Ludwig <mlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:15:35 +0200 |
We all know (although, as an American, I hesitate to speak for my British colleagues) that the thread is way off topic, and has undoubtedly gone on too long.
This particular and seemingly superfluous use of the comma in enumerations before the final conjunction, sometimes encountered when reading English, has always struck me as both odd and interesting, as it seems to introduce a pause or hesitation before concluding the list of items, thus lending particular emphasis to the last one.
(Much worse, in my opinion, the - maybe transatlantic - habit of putting the endquote after the period, "like this." Completely illogical :-)
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