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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
Absolutely. It removes potential ambiguity. | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
Was taught it and tested out of English comp w/ an A (2/50,0000). However since then, in business was taught not to use it so I don’t any longer. "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Hold Fast |
This, that, and the other thing. ****************************************************************************** Never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet . . . | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Because it's superfluous and serves no logical purpose anymore. However, the Oxford comma does serve a logical purpose. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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 ____________________________________________________________ Money may not buy happiness...but it will certainly buy a better brand of misery A man should acknowledge his losses just as gracefully as he celebrates his victories Remember, in politics it's not who you know...it's what you know about who you know | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
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Sound and Fury |
This is the worst option. If you write this way, this would anyone know if you invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin, or if you just left out the comma? Using the serial comma will never cause confusion, but it can alleviate it. I use it always. "I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." -- Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, Jan. 11, 1989 Si vis pacem para bellum There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Feeding Trolls Since 1995 | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Same here. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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What a ridiculous thing to be so passionate about. Year V | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
No one likes to be distracted when they're reading something good. | |||
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posting without pants |
Yes. Use it and love it. Strive to live your life so when you wake up in the morning and your feet hit the floor, the devil says "Oh crap, he's up." | |||
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Honky Lips |
Absolutely. After all, commas are a pause when speaking. | |||
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| Administrator |
Oxford Comma? Yes, see O'Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy, 851 F.3d 69 (1st Cir. 2017). That missing comma cost the employer about $5 million in the above labor dispute case. I don't make a big deal about it in other people's writing, unless I can't understand what they're saying. But in my own writing, I do use the Oxford comma. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
But, if you're writing as yourself and in a casual conversation, the rules are largely irrelevant; write the way you speak aloud, and insert pauses/etc however you please. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
"The Elements of Style" by Strunk emphatically calls for what is being called the "Oxford Comma". It's a wonderful little compendium of good English prose style. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| We gonna get some oojima in this house!  |
Oxford comma. ----------------------------------------------------------- TCB all the time... | |||
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Armed and Gregarious |
An Oxford comma, or lack thereof, can be worth millions of dollars: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09...ment-trnd/index.html "A lack of an Oxford comma cost dairy $5 million." ___________________________________________ "He was never hindered by any dogma, except the Constitution." - Ty Ross speaking of his grandfather General Barry Goldwater "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." - William Tecumseh Sherman | |||
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| Stop Talking, Start Doing |
It bothers me when people don’t use it. _______________ Mind. Over. Matter. | |||
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CAPT Obvious |
I always use the Oxford comma as well. | |||
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| SIGforum Official Eye Doc  |
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm sure someone will!!)  but the proper sentence structure for the lower picture should be "We invited the strippers-JFK and Stalin."I don't belive the picture accurately depicts the oxford comma debate. Maybe why I'm not a linguist.  | |||
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