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Re:Nobody. Understands. Punctuation. by cromulent on Sunday June 08, 2014 @02:41PM (#7865442)
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...

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Re:Nobody. Understands. Punctuation. by Anderkent on Monday June 09, 2014 @11:32AM (#7868901)
But then you have to backtrack quite often.

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

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