Something like “Foreign ministers of Italy, France set to meet blablabla”. There’s just two parties being mentioned and yet no “and”. Makes me do a double take every time.
Asking because that’s not a thing in German and I’ve only started noticing it recently but since then I’ve seen it a lot.
Don’t know, I’m just here to state my absolute hate for the practice. Sure you don’t write “A and B and C and D”, but “A, B, C, and D”.
However, “A, B” is absolutely awful.
Upvoted purely for the use of the Oxford comma.
It tends to remove ambiguity
And panties.
I feel the pause of the Oxford comma when I speak. Always throws off the rhythm of a sentence when I don’t see it in text.
Another thing that used to interrupt my reading flow. I’ve since come around though.