was she trying for irony?

[cellio]

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation sounds like a great book for grammar nerds, but I am put off somewhat by the 1.5 punctuation errors in the title. (One is debatable and might be excused by context (it refers to a joke containing the phrase); the other is clearly wrong.)

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as one professional to another

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Serial commas are not required by all style guides. I didn't use them myself until I had to learn Chicago style. In fact, when I worked for a professor who used them, he told me they were old-fashioned and on their way out. Even though I am used to them now, that's mostly because I work for an academic audience. Popular contexts (such as newspapers and magazines) omit the serial comma, and that's fine!