http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=down-doopy-doo The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 02:48:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4485#post-12614 Fri, 14 May 2010 12:20:08 +0000 Des Custard 12614@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Actually I think you'll find it's called an Oxbridge comma. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4485#post-12580 Fri, 14 May 2010 08:15:35 +0000 Oxbridge 12580@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Works best as a one-liner IMHO.</p> <p>But if you insist there should be no comma after the word before 'and' at the end of a long list. That's an Americanism and has to be stopped. Like Rikkor. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4485#post-12566 Fri, 14 May 2010 06:51:01 +0000 ronseal 12566@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In the war on the environment, you have to expect the occasional casualty, BP spin doctors will explain to the White House today. Sometimes, we have to accept there's a bit of friendly fire.</p> <p>'We expect the Americans will understand completely,' said a BP corporate messaging strategist, 'they've been in this position many times themselves, and I'm sure they will only sympathise with us.'</p> <p>But others are not so sure the Americans will see it that way. Massive pollution, and wholescale loss of life, may not play well with popular opinion, when it happens on their own backyard, some controversialists argue. </p> <p>[ER. MORE FOLLOWS, AFTER GRAMMATICAL CRITIQUE FROM OXBRIDGE] </p>