Lefty being smart... And not at all
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That's a man.
I would at least suggest taking care to use proper grammar when publicly commenting on the use of grammar.
I wonder how many dildos are in Giuliani's collection.
The grammatical error here is the two sentences in the top tweet separated by a comma instead of a period. She could have at least used a colon.
Also, if you want to avoid awkwardness like this then change the order of the items in your list. Don't add a comma that doesn't belong there.
What’s wrong with an Oxford comma?
It's unnecessary and superfluous. We add commas between the items in a list so that we don't need to put the conjunction between each item in the list, so the comma is taking the place of "and" or "or." But then we do add the conjunction between the final two items in order to indicate the end of the list, so to put a comma there as well is redundant. It's like writing "and and."
Commas are also stand-ins for pauses in speech, such as how one might enumerate a list in speech. It's also how I used the comma in the previous sentence. I don't know if I've ever heard of commas being substitutes for conjunctions.
You used the comma to separate the two clauses in your sentence, and to subordinate one clause to another. That is incidentally also how I just used it. Authors writing dialogue in quotations sometimes use commas to denote pauses in speech, but that's not how commas are conventionally used in narrative or descriptive text.
Otherwise, you could put a comma, anywhere in a sentence and argue, that that's, where a pause in speech would go if you were saying it.
I mean, if I were transcribing Christopher Walken or William Shatner, yes, I may type it like that. Sometimes ungrammatical things add to the understanding and/or character of a sentence.
Although personally, when it comes to denoting trailing off mid-sentence I'm partial to the ellipsis.
Both work. And the level of kvetching about an Oxford comma is a low testosterone, woman level argument.
The function of punctuation is to convey a specific meaning. Not to be “technically correct” and while making socially retarded arguments.
Or just put "and Rudy Giuliani" at the end of the list.
This is correct.
The bottom comment isn't using an oxford comma
Leftist probably: "It's a perfectly valid sentence! The rules of grammar are wrong! Every English teacher and professor who disagrees with me is wrong!"
When I see a grammar nazi contributing 0% to the discussion other than justifying their $50k loan for a useless degree, I think of someone that looks just like her.
Communists and democrats arent people, they are human sized vermin and roaches
I'm an Oxford comma appreciator.
An Oxford comma enjoyer, if you will.
A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
I think it was one of the many fake scandals near the end of the election. There were so many it was hard to keep track.