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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jun 5

    Vampire Weekend asks: Who gives a f*** about an Oxford Comma? https://youtu.be/P_i1xk07o4g  Answer: I do! The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Centuryhttps://stevenpinker.com/publications/sense-style-thinking-persons-guide-writing-21st-century#.Wxc5KHfZ4pE.twitter …

    6:31 PM - 5 Jun 2018
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      1. Marco Ballesteros‏ @BadHombreMarcoB Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        Oxford comma deniers are worse than climate change deniers.

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      2. James Tiberius Stone‏ @Evolving_Ego Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      3. Frankie Gaffney‏ @FrankieGaffney Jun 5
        Replying to @Evolving_Ego @sapinker

        I don't police others either – unless they use two hyphens in place of an en dash.

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      4. James Tiberius Stone‏ @Evolving_Ego Jun 5
        Replying to @FrankieGaffney @sapinker

        So you even en dash on Twitter. That's hard core :D

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      1. There must be a pony in here somwhere‏ @abmartinson Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        I'd like to thank my parents, Neil Young and Meryl Streep.

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      1. Dr. Darrell Johnson‏ @DRJ1960 Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        Savages! Without the Oxford Comma, life would be cold, dark, and meaningless.

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      2. Updoc is the new black‏ @Wit_recycler Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        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 …

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      3. Sofia Axelrod, PhD‏ @Baby__Sleep Jun 5
        Replying to @Wit_recycler @sapinker @NewYorker

        Same! As a non-native I had no idea. That article changed my life - it is now full of commas.

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      2. Dr. Dan Cady‏ @DanCady Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        You can always visit Breitbart and see no commas at all. It's quite a sight, site, and cite!

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      1. Benoit Cambron‏ @benoit_cambron Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      1. Jonpow‏ @BorrisSpassky Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        Great, book. Helped me; alot

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      1. Jeegaza‏ @MattEtcetera Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      1. FechezLaVache‏ @JHferett2 Jun 15
        Replying to @sapinker @ModernMindsPsy

        I care about the Oxford comma!

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      1. .‏ @G3Sv6Beyond Jun 6
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        I bought this book from @KinokuniyaDubai 2015

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      1. equalityscoutUK‏ @equalityscoutUK Jun 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        Oxford comma is way cool, evocative of that grammatical muscularity & prowess found in German.

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      1. Aurora‏ @Auroredelanuit Jun 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc … :D

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      1. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Jun 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      1. Benjamin J. Bryan‏ @Benjamin_J_B_ Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        The *element of style

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      1.  🇨🇦 🇱🇷 Tracey Ananmalay  🇬🇧 🇩🇪‏ @TraceyAnanmalay Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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