Lefty friends have bad grammar
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Alright, I'm going to go there.
Oxford commas are incorrect. Fight me.
"When going to a nerd convention, you must prepare money for souvenirs, room and board, costume repair and autographs."
"When going to a nerd convention, you must prepare money for souvenirs, room and board, costume repair, and autographs."
There is actually legal precedent that the comma is necessary. Business contracts have been ruled on one side over another because the comma was not there, and it was argued that the "and" statement implied the two things at the end were joined together and not separate articles, and thus only part of the binding contract if they occurred together.
Legal semantics don't make it good grammar. The comma is there as a stand-in for the conjunction. If you have the conjunction between the last two items on the list then you don't need the comma. It's like saying "and" twice.
"don't make it good grammar"
Gonna need you to chill out on the grammar Nazism when you're also writing that kind of tripe.
OK I'll take the L on that one.
Optional. But both can work.