Oxford comma deniers are worse than climate change deniers.
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The Oxford is a great tool for avoiding ambiguity. So is saying "not all X are Y", instead of the ambiguous "all X are not Y". I don't police others, though -- unless the ambiguity is funny.
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I don't police others either – unless they use two hyphens in place of an en dash.
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So you even en dash on Twitter. That's hard core :D
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I'd like to thank my parents, Neil Young and Meryl Streep.
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Savages! Without the Oxford Comma, life would be cold, dark, and meaningless.
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I ignorantly refused to ever use it, then I read this piece by
@NewYorker's Mary "The Comma Queen" Norris, and I realized the error of my ways.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/holy-writ/amp … -
Same! As a non-native I had no idea. That article changed my life - it is now full of commas.
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You can always visit Breitbart and see no commas at all. It's quite a sight, site, and cite!
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Compare: "I would like to thank my parents, Pamela Anderson, and Pope Francis." vs: "I would like to thank my parents, Pamela Anderson and Pope Francis."
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Great, book. Helped me; alot
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The problem is that it is not the comma's absence in one case that is ambiguous, but rather its absence in an entire work that makes the absence in one case ambiguous.
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I care about the Oxford comma!
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I bought this book from
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Oxford comma is way cool, evocative of that grammatical muscularity & prowess found in German.
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I thought you said no one dictates language and through individual interactions a language emerges and evolves that is better than if it had been planned. You likened it to the free market system (or at least its ideology, since the master race creates money from nothing).
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The *element of style
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I had a very interesting conversation about the Oxford comma just yesterday with a student's parent who is a graphic designer. Hers was a different and interesting point of view. I enjoyed Sense of Style, btw.
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