Oxford Comma.

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  • chukkaphob4

    1. I love my parents, Lady Gaga and Humpty Dumpty.

    2. I love my parents, Lady Gaga, and Humpty Dumpty.

    • 2.chukkaphob
    • every civilized languages chooses 1, except englishdrgs
    • Why would an Oxford comma apply to a language other than English? Intonation and phrasing is wildly different across all spoken languages.face_melter
    • Not to mention grammar and sentence construction.face_melter
    • they're both correct, depending on what it is you're saying. why is this so difficult?Fax_Benson
    • haha - drgs is totally missing the point hereset
    • Throwing commas into Swedish would just make you look like a clown. The pauses are in the words.face_melter
    • in germanic languages -- no it isntdrgs
    • basically youre saying grammar is different between langauges, because grammar is differentdrgs
    • lol.since1979
    • You're transposing English punctuation into languages that aren't English or even remotely built or as flexible as English.face_melter
    • It makes no sense whatsoever.face_melter
    • i speak norwegian, english and russian fluently + some german.
      english is the least flexible
      drgs
    • And yet everyone speaks it.detritus
    • because american culture is dominant and the language is easy to learn
      no other reasons
      drgs
    • the two examples in this post should be
      1. I love my parents Lady Gaga and Humpty Dumpty.
      2. I love my parents, Lady Gaga and Humpty Dumpty.
      drgs
    • You're still missunderstandingset
    • i know the cases where you have these "pairs" which blend in within the list otherwise, but the rule does not "scale"drgs
    • what if you have "triplets" which you need to differ from the parent list? etc
      what if you have three lists each consists of 5 words, how do you join them all?
      drgs
    • http://i.imgur.com/p…set
    • the oxford comma is an attempt on hierarchical unions, but it does not generalize. so either have something that works or dont use it at alldrgs
    • Humpty Dumpty is a fictional character, he is not the father.
      #wakeupsheeple
      ORAZAL
    • dunno about english, but in french you never put a "," before a "and"Bennn
    • and we always put a "," before a "but"Bennn
    • Ben est sociable mais négatif.ORAZAL
    • used to do 1, now I do 2.section_014
    • ^ another one missing the point. Someone put them out of their misery. Please.set
    • drgs, no, you do NOT speak English fluently if you pick 1. LOL! Your parents are NOT Lady Gaga and Humpty Dumpty, are they? LMAO!!!chukkaphob

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