And then there's the Oxford comma

[LogDog75]

16. Got into a battle over the Oxford Coma

I reviewed enlisted performance reports before they went to the commander for his signature. Formatting had to be correct. Had to be able to quantify and qualify what an individual did. This included listing tree or more related items in a sentence.

One SNCO, same rank as me, argued the coma wasn’t necessary anymore before the word “and.” I told him that’s the way the AF writes and pulled out the AF book on writing and showed him where it said that. He had a degree in English and insisted his way was the current way of writing. I returned the performance report to him and told him to do it the way the AF says to do it. He was hot under the collar about it but in the end he complied.

All that over a silly coma. Frankly, on a board like this it really doesn’t matter as long as we understand what the person is writing.