Defenders of the Oxford comma point to an almost certainly apocryphal story of the student who dedicated a piece of work to "my parents, God and Ayn Rand".
Driving, Snyder dictates poems into a little tape recorder, along with their punctuation — double indent, space, comma, point.
Some argue that the "additional" space after a comma and full point serves as a "pause signal" for the reader.
It would be helpful to have a full stop instead of a comma for the decimal point, as 10,000 could be read as 'ten thousand'.
The authors used a comma symbol as decimal point, and the number of significant figures should be uniform throughout the manuscript.
"It's not an exclamation point, but a comma," Mr. Diamond said of his Mariinsky II.
"James Bundy is so perceptive and faithful about the text; he'll point out a comma, and then this whole world opens up about what Beckett might have meant there instead of what I was doing.
If a standard word space is inserted after a full point or a comma, then, optically, this produces a space of up to 50% wider than that of other word spaces within a line of type.
Ruth Franklin, of the Critics, was sure she had it, and shouted out to her daughter, Phoebe, in the audience: "Go Dog, Go!" punctuated thus, with a comma after "dog" and an exclamation point at the end.
Yes, you should use a period and a comma, but when you also work with semicolons, question marks, and exclamation points, "etc".
