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To: theothercheek; Tabi Katz
Today's copyeditor would definitely take out the third comma.

I would take out the first as well, since the following phrase is restrictive (essential to the meaning of what precedes it), not nonrestrictive (parenthetical), although I still see many passages punctuated this way.

The middle one I think everyone would keep. For now.

131 posted on 11/12/2007 11:28:55 AM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand
Today's copyeditor would definitely take out the third comma.

Not the editor of the last newspaper where I worked as a photog and syndicated calumnist.

132 posted on 11/12/2007 2:02:16 PM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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