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Should the Parthenon Marbles Be Returned to Greece?
Two of my major obsessions—punctuation and Greek—came together recently, when President Xi Jinping, of China, voiced his support for the return to Greece of the...
This sentence cries out for justice.
- Mary Norris
- The New Yorker
It makes you long to see not only the Parthenon but the serial comma restored to its ancient glory. (Call it the Oxford comma if you must, but be aware that this is another case of a…
A comma after “midair” would have kept the “muscled body” of the river god from “lounging in . . . voluptuous female figures” (much as he might like to). But the sentence would still be confusing.
Are the river…