Opinion of the Oxford Comma

[RINO Tom]

Obviously it should only be used to remove ambiguity. Its invasion of American language is as awful as anything Noah Webster did.

Sometimes it ADDS ambiguity!

Anyway, I am a STAUNCH opponent of the Oxford comma.  It.  Sucks.

[RINO Tom]

Millennials that don't want to properly distinguish between list items can frig off.

Yeah, the thing is, I'm already doing that perfectly adequately without that pussyass comma!

[RINO Tom]

Millennials that don't want to properly distinguish between list items can frig off.

Yeah, the thing is, I'm already doing that perfectly adequately without that pussyass comma!

F#cking millennials.

I'm older than you!  And it's easily more traditional to leave it out in American writing, isn't it?

[RINO Tom]

Relevant:




Obviously confusion can still remain, but let's be honest: where does your mind go to first?

Goes both ways:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

Under the adding ambiguity section, it gives the following quote, where the author is thanking his mother, the author Ayn Rand and the creator of all things God ... Yet it kind of looks like this is being written by Ayn Rand's son (with the commas acting as a grammatical tool to rename his mother):

[In the dedication of the book]: "To my mother, Ayn Rand, and God"

Compare that to the much clearer: "To my mother, Ayn Rand and God"

[RINO Tom]

Relevant:




Obviously confusion can still remain, but let's be honest: where does your mind go to first?

Goes both ways:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

Under the adding ambiguity section, it gives the following quote, where the author is thanking his mother, the author Ayn Rand and the creator of all things God ... Yet it kind of looks like this is being written by Ayn Rand's son (with the commas acting as a grammatical tool to rename his mother):

[In the dedication of the book]: "To my mother, Ayn Rand, and God"

Compare that to the much clearer: "To my mother, Ayn Rand and God"

I think the correct usage is to omit the commas if your mother were in fact Ayn Rand. "To my mother Ayn Rand and God."

That's certainly debatable ... commas are very regularly placed on each side of a renaming phrase (My favorite message board, Atlas, has that same rule).

[RINO Tom]

The Oxford Comma is good, great, and amazing.

More like ugly, stupid and redundant.

EDIT: I wonder if there is a correlation between political affiliation and usage of the Oxford comma.  I would have always assumed Republicans would be more likely to NOT use it, as that seems to be more in line with old timey tradition like newspapers and the favored practice of business types (totally anecdotal), but there doesn't seem to be much of a pattern.