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When Addiction Has a White Face
- SilasX 11y agoNot to nitpick grammar, but ... >The addicted, those who preyed on them and those caught by class, geography and especially race were swept together. A list within a list, no semi-colon to denote commas, and no Oxford comma to help parse? I hate this sentence.
- djtriptych 11y agoCommonly not used in journalism. Note that the NYTimes publishes (and follows) its own style guide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma#Usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma#Usage
- SilasX 11y agoRight, that last one can go either way, but in combination with the other two, you really need to find a better way to say that. I wasn't saying the Oxford had to used all the time, just that it really compounds the parsing difficulty here.