WWW: NEW "The Continentals: The Fire Next Time" up now

[the-deeman at webtv.net]

On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 8:56:15 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
> On 10/19/2015 2:54 AM, the-deeman at webtv wrote:
> > On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 9:33:50 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
> >> On 10/16/2015 5:50 AM, the-deeman@ wrote:
> >>> There's a new update at The Continentals. Here's the teaser:
> >>>
> >>> "THE DOOR IN THE FLAW!!!"
> >>>
> >>> Locked in the darkness of the inner sanctum of his mind, Abbeline
> >>> suddenly breaks through to the other side of his altered state and a
> >>> door is thrown wide open by his "break through" made flesh and
> >>> blood.
> >>
> >> ... Well, all right!  It's a Finish the Sentence Challenge!
> >>
> >> "It was no stranger that stood before me.  To my astonishment I realized
> >> that that shape -"
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> "- was Queen Victoria herself, with stilts and a trenchcoat, and her
> >> crown hidden under a hat!"
> >>
> >> ... Hey, it makes as much sense as any hallucination does.  Let me know
> >> if I win the challenge!  8{D>
> >>
> >> And your grammar is fine, but we might have to have a reasonable
> >> scholarly stylistic debate on "that that" and the merits of the Oxford
> >> comma sometime.  Heh.  8{D>
> >
> > What is the "Oxford comma"?
> 
> It is the thing people put into sentences when they feel the sentence 
> could use a break.  As in "To my astonishment, ..."  For your modern 
> American audience, the lack of that comma is perfectly stylish.  But 
> Victorians would love it!
> 

Ah. I've never heard of a comma referred to as an "Oxford comma" so I thought there was some special usage to it.

Dee