[cc-community] [asheesh at creativecommons.org: Re: A comment from Noah Slater]

Robert Atwood (lists) lists at atwood.org.uk
Thu May 15 14:46:28 EDT 2008


Well for my 2p I agree with Complex -- commas would be suitable, use of 
em-dashes or double-hyphens would also be fine,  but I don't like 
'intraCaps', in fact I didn't know they had a name.


Parker Higgins wrote:
> Woah, I completely hadn't yet noticed that a super-geeky grammar 
> response had already gone out on this list.  I guess I'm not the only 
> English geek in the room.
> 
> Complex wrote:
>> a) SEMICOLONS AND COMMAS
>> My comment is at least a little persnickety, but this is a list of
>> nouns, not a list of adjectives. As such, you *could* separate them
>> appropriately with commas. Semicolons would be necessary if any of
>> these nouns contained commas.
>>
>> (For example, "Attribution, Share-Alike, Non-Commercial"  or the
>> hypothetical "Visible, prominent Attribution; Share-Alike;
>> Non-Commercial" where the type of attribution contains a comma.)
>
etc...


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