Sooner or later we have to come to terms with the fact that the internet has radicalized a whole generation of people who would otherwise not hold extreme views about the Oxford comma
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I'm sure you've seen this, but it amuses me - so I thought I'd share it with you π
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Just noticed why the #APstyle is pants-on-head retarded. As if it wasn't already because there's no #serialcomma
It's "email" per #AP but then there's "e-book", "e-book reader", and "e-reader".
Really kinda shocking actually. I really thought this would be more level. Apparently the vast, vast majority of respondents are pro Oxford comma (87% for, N = 62).
Also good to know that this is definitively not pineapple on pizza all over again π€
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Okay, a bit of a heavy topic today... This question affects our clarity of communication, presentation, and writing style. It also affects our clarity of communication, presentation and writing style. Please boost generously... #AcademicChatter [ ] Yes to Oxford/Serial comma!!! [ ] No to Oxford/Serial comma!!! [ ] God this is pineapple on pizza all over again
If you look back to the 1953 Associated Press Style Book, the first modern edition (and the first to mention usage of the serial comma), it clearly states, ' Note: Usage has eliminated the final comma in the series before βandβ and βorβ as a departure from text books. '
This is clear evidence that the AP editors understood this was a novel practice at odds with previous educational conventions.
What's interesting to me about arguments over usage of "the Oxford comma" is that young people apparently have the idea that the use of the serial comma (its proper name) is somehow a deviation from standard usage, and not the other way around.
Go back 40-50 years, and the serial comma was the standard way everyone was taught to write in American English.
I usually don't use the Oxford comma, but I do when it helps avoid ambiguity. To require the use of the Oxford comma is insensible, IMO.
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