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Time for a second opinion youtube.com/shorts/ky0YO...

This peasant had to look up the meaning of Oxford comma to know what he’s not using. It must have been flogged into me in grade school.

I can't believe this is where I fall out with you. /s I'm a big fan of the Oxford comma.

gosh, this may be worse than the burritos...

Sounds like you’ve never been worried about confusing two strippers with Churchill and Stalin

Makes wiping a challenge

So only carefully scheduled and planned diarrhea... got it.

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Screaming, crying, throwing up

I guess it COULD happen, if your shoulder bone was connected to your butt bone.

oh John, you make me sad

Punctuation matters. It's the difference between "Let's eat, grandma!" and "Let's eat grandma!".

👏🏼, 👏🏼 and 👏🏼.

The American education system has failed you. You will never make a living writing.

Thank God. I feel like a voice crying in the wilderness with this

Well, that escalated quickly.

Punctuation reflects speech patterns. If your speech includes a pause before the last list item, write a comma when you write it. If not, not. If it depends on context when you speak, let it do so when you write. It's wise to observe patterns in language. It's foolish to impose rules on language.

I said what I said, John.

That reminds me I haven’t done my rotator cuff exercises so far yet today. Getting old is irritating.

One of the first things I learned to do as an actor reading scripts was to mark out all of the commas, and put in my own. Nobody talks the way most writers dialogue, even good dialogue writers. It's why people love/hate Aaron Sorkin stuff.

How about rotator cuff injuries without spontaneous diarrhea?

(Clings to truth, justice, and the Oxford comma)

I adore that little comma and feel bad when I forget to include them.

😮 😧 😞 😟

Not using the Oxford comma is blasphemous... I fought for this comma.

Use it when not using it leads the reader to misunderstand the intended sense of the sentence. LIKE EVERY OTHER TYPE OF PUNCTUATION

Doesn't that mean the oxford comma is then an unfortunate reality - endemic of our times?

I love you deeply.

Personally I like the Oxford comma. We’re both entitled to our opinions but not to impose them on anyone else.

OK yes, BUT WHY??

Oh, John.

We were instructed way back when punctuation was taught as a separate subject that you do not use the comma. The use of "and" ends the list so no comma is required. But over time I've come to use it here and there. It's time to be consistent again and use what I was taught.

And if said friend is a Targaryen the sentence could also be: Auf der Geburtstagsfeier meines Freundes war eine Stripperin: seine Ehefrau und seine Schwester.

Odd; I also was schooled mostly in the 70s, in the US, and the serial comma was How Things Were Done.

Oxford's apostrophes or Oxford apostrophes?

Im in shambles. That's my favorite comma.

How about an apostrophe at the end of a word where a letter was dropped? What, nothin’ to say?

The Oxford Comma is NOT OPTIONAL. I will never understand why anyone denies the necessity and correctness of the Oxford Comma. There's no justifiable reason for leaving it out. It's 100% logical, reasonable, rational, and meaningful.

This rules

"Do you believe in infant baptism?" "Believe in it?! Hell, I've seen it done!"

i suppose I should say “functions as” for the sake of pedants since pedantry is the defining personality trait of Oxford comma aficionados

You write the sentence carefully so that if read out it's also clear And also remember that the colon exists and should be used within sentences when useful Even the Oxford style guide says it's better to rewrite a sentence than require a serial comma

that was a civil OC discussion. We didn't shame you for being wrong, even.

You can translate punctuation marks as words, but that's a translation. Once in a while omitting the comma creates confusion. Careful writers who don't like it notice and avoid the confusion. (Scalzi, I assume) Guess who is not a careful writer? AI. There's still room for art.

god damn a serial comma thread on a Sunday morning. That's living. Can we do possessives for a gerund phrase next?

I… MAY have lost a job opportunity due to my impassioned rejection of the Oxford comma. Worth it. Wouldn’t want to work with a bunch of wrong folks anyway!

Diabolical sentence structure.

Oxford comma is better than the use of "as well" at the end of a list of three or more, which is regularly used by the radio and TV media, as well.

My heart.

You might change you tune on one or two of those if you haven’t pooped for a week

I was taught to use the Oxford comma in grade school back in the 1950s. I have used it since. There are times when it makes the writing clearer. I see no downside to using it.

I’m very much Team Oxford Comma, and yet despite my initial apprehension, that sir, was a solid retort!

Are the shoulder pain and the liquid poos related or just coincidence?