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”. But " A, B" is absolutely awful.
Upvoted purely for the use of the Oxford comma.
It tends to remove ambiguity
Another thing that used to interrupt my reading flow. I’ve since come around though.
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.