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[–] [email protected] 142 points 6 months ago (2 children)

groan

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] ultimitchow 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] funkless_eck 3 points 6 months ago

thank God you didn't confuse us by thinking you were referring to yourself twice at the same time separately instead of twice, twice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Honestly same. Let’s hope he thinks the Oxford Comma is a neat martini dusted in Vicodin.

[–] Assman 5 points 6 months ago

I've seen those English dramas too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I do find issue with your capitalization, with Trump I find fault with his capitalization. Slight difference

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Vampire Weekend does! This is some deep nostalgia for me that you've just dug up.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hitler introduced better protection for animals. I'm not going to say I like him, but I'm with him on this one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He also gave up his inheritance to his single mother sister. Overall his bad dominated his good and he deserved a humiliating death like Mussolini or Gaddafi, but there was some good there.

Though it's interesting that Trump's "good" is a grammar preference. Trump isn't more bad than Hitler but he might be less good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That last sentence... I haven't thought about that, but you might be right.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ajen 6 points 6 months ago

"A broken clock..."

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (11 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[–] Peppycito 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes even a calculator can be a clock!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] prayer 5 points 6 months ago

Real ones know it's 5318008

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It's always 8008135 o'clock somewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

The strippers, JFK, and Stalin agree with Trump on this one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

EXPLAIN "COVFEFE" ALREADY!

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[–] ThrowawayPermanente 11 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Kate Christobek is not a fan of the Oxford comma

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

There had to be something we’d have in common. Now that I know he’s an Oxford comma man, he’s got my vote!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Trump is a dumb slob who can't read or write on his own.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I'm sure Hitler enjoyed breathing air too but that doesn't mean it's wrong or that I'm going to stop

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I use it the Oxford comma the truly correct way.

Situationally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I use it geographically.

You know what they say. When in Oxford...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It sounds wrong without the comma

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Just because he does, doesn’t mean you can’t, Kate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Never thought I'd agree with Trump on something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Hes an ox, yes, but not nearly as useful

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

What is Trump's stance on gif/jif?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The Oxford comma is still the superior way.

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