Oxford Comma.
Oxford Comma.
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- drgs-2
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English is the only language using it. It belongs in the same drawer with MM/DD/YYYY, 12 hour time and measuring the world with stones and bodyparts.- I was in the middle of formulating a response to this but then I figured it was far easier just to call you an idiotset
- Though that date format is certainly moronicset
- you see? you cant even back it updrgs
- Here's one backup - http://www.qbn.com/r…set
- Here's another -
http://helveticka.co…set - ...but judging by your comment in the first example, you don't even understand it.set
- So what's the point?set
- you use comma between words which are not joined by "and"
if you use both comma and "and", you have two joints, which is unnecessarydrgs - but you're still not understanding the huge difference in meaning when not using the oxford commaset
- As someone who clearly has no understanding of it's importance, I can see why you might be against it.set
- you have lost this intellectual debatedrgs
- As much as you may like to convince yourself of that, the reality is quite evidently the opposite.set
- there are good reasons for not using it too, and honestly, if there's some kind of massive confusion either way, you should just reword what you're sayingmonospaced