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Re: Thin Client



On 2017-04-04, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Commas before the conjunction "and"? Not here. Rewrite the sentence should
> there be any ambiguity.

Or or. Exempt from overtime pay in a dairy company in Portland, Me:

  The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing,
  storing, packing for shipment or distribution of:
  
  (three things)

"...packing for shipment or distribution of," or packing for shipment,
or distribution of...?

The ten million dollar question.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.html?_r=0


-- 
"It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the
far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs.
Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To
the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.


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