Oxford Comma.
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 flexibledrgs - And yet everyone speaks it.detritus
- because american culture is dominant and the language is easy to learn
no other reasonsdrgs - 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.
#wakeupsheepleORAZAL - 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