Can we convince people to use the Oxford comma, if we spread that it’s anti-woke?
Figures the Oxford comma opponent wouldn’t know how to use an Oxford comma.
I think the implication might have been that stupid people will incorrectly use it overemphatically, not that he is against the comma itself, but i could be wrong
I think the implication is that people who are anti-woke are stupid so those are the ones you have to convince to use the Oxford comma since intelligent people already see the benefit.
Intelligent people avoid being redundant, though. The and/or is a substitute for the Oxford comma.
Kate Christobek is not a fan of the Oxford comma
I use it the Oxford comma the truly correct way.
Situationally.
Can you describe a situation where an Oxford comma would be detrimental to a sentence?
Mostly in script. Specifically with adjectives.
“I found myself surrounded by giant trees, massive ferns and strange mushrooms.”
If this line were to be spoken aloud, the last two subjects would not have a pause between them. It’s a picky me thing, to be honest. I’m extremely obsessive about grammar.
When it changes the meaning.
I went to dinner with two idiots, Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Vs
I went to dinner with two idiots, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.
If you intend for the reader to think you went to dinner with two people, treating the Oxford comma as mandatory is going to add ambiguity at best and change the meaning at worst.
groan
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point uses the comma the way you think it should be used
Hitler introduced better protection for animals. I’m not going to say I like him, but I’m with him on this one.
He also gave up his inheritance to his single mother sister. Overall his bad dominated his good and he deserved a humiliating death like Mussolini or Gaddafi, but there was some good there.
Though it’s interesting that Trump’s “good” is a grammar preference. Trump isn’t more bad than Hitler but he might be less good.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
