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cromulent on June 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nobody. Understands. Punctuation.

In my natural parsing, if you are enumerating things, once I hit the "and" then I know you have moved on to the next item. So, for me it is not needed - but that may be "British laxness" [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves#Critici...

Anderkent on June 9, 2014 [–]

But then you have to backtrack quite often.

>We went out for drinks, fish and chips, and some ice cream.

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