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solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours agoHonestly I’m not sure if I’m critiquing widely accepted English grammar because it seems kinda like the serial comma (some use, some don’t), but I don’t know the name for it.
The NY Times piece on commas doesn’t cite any sources and gives examples with and without based on Byzantine rules I highly doubt anyone follows, and the OWL doesn’t seem to cover this specifically.
So… any idea what this particular type of comma is called that I’m wrong about but would like to persuade others that I should be right?
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s called a vocative comma.
solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Thanks!
I’m definitely arguing against standard rules then 🙄
However, I’d say generally people write “Good morning John, please do this boring thing from last week”, instead of “Good morning, John, please do this thing”.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I don’t know, Carol.
I don’t know Carol.
It reduces ambiguity in some cases, but unlike the Oxford comma, it never adds ambiguity (I don’t think the inline signing of a letter ambiguity mentioned earlier is reasonable).