Timeline for Is it proper usage to replace a comma in a list with a semi-colon in this situation (see details)?
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| Apr 12, 2011 at 14:24 | comment | added | XP1 | If you had omitted the serial comma, would you be "watching traveling"? Doesn't make much sense in this example, but what if someone thought it was a typo and misunderstood it as Traveling, a film or TV show? Anyway, in your first example, with the serial comma in place, the commas-only sentence is fine. The only commas are the list item separators. If there were extra different types of commas besides those list item separators, then I would use the semicolon, for example if you added nested conjunction lists of more than two items. | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 20:16 | comment | added | JohnFx | @kajaco I was referring to the nested conjunctions. | |
| Sep 4, 2010 at 18:09 | vote | accept | JohnFx | ||
| Sep 4, 2010 at 14:38 | comment | added | kajaco | "With standard punctuation this could get confusing"--in what way? It seems perfectly clear. | |
| Sep 4, 2010 at 14:16 | history | edited | avpaderno |
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| Sep 4, 2010 at 3:39 | answer | added | delete | timeline score: 14 | |
| Sep 4, 2010 at 3:32 | history | asked | JohnFx | CC BY-SA 2.5 |