FiniteBanjo ,

Bastard has me wanting to exclude the comma before the "and" in lists, now.

ThrowawayPermanente ,

Great thanks I hate it. No more commas for me ever just to be sure.

AnalogyAddict ,

Just because the man is capable of one good decision in his life, doesn't mean he should run the country. Just sayin'.

nymwit ,

groan

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point uses the comma the way you think it should be used

ech ,

My actual reaction. I'm still gonna use it, but blegh.

LostOperative ,

I mean at the end of the day, Who Gives a Fuck About an Oxford Comma?

ultimitchow ,

me, myself, and I

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I use it the Oxford comma the truly correct way.

Situationally.

Phil_in_here ,

Can you describe a situation where an Oxford comma would be detrimental to a sentence?

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Mostly in script. Specifically with adjectives.

"I found myself surrounded by giant trees, massive ferns and strange mushrooms."

If this line were to be spoken aloud, the last two subjects would not have a pause between them. It's a picky me thing, to be honest. I'm extremely obsessive about grammar.

bitwaba ,

When it changes the meaning.

I went to dinner with two idiots, Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Vs

I went to dinner with two idiots, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.

If you intend for the reader to think you went to dinner with two people, treating the Oxford comma as mandatory is going to add ambiguity at best and change the meaning at worst.

neidu2 ,

Can we convince people to use the Oxford comma, if we spread that it's anti-woke?

Darkard ,

And, have, people, write, like, this,? No thanks

SpaceNoodle ,

*No, thanks.

morphballganon ,

... you mean, convince people not to use it?

shasta ,

I think the implication is that people who are anti-woke are stupid so those are the ones you have to convince to use the Oxford comma since intelligent people already see the benefit.

morphballganon ,

Intelligent people avoid being redundant, though. The and/or is a substitute for the Oxford comma.

Gardienne ,

Tell that to the two strippers, JFK and Stalin.

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