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Paelos
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The image is right, but blaming the Oxford comma alone is sort of wrong; if you make it stripper in the singular for example suddenly it flips the problem to be when you DON'T use the Oxford comma. Really the smart thing to do would be to list the stripper(s) last since then there can be no ambiguity.
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"We invited the strippers jfk and Stalin" would mean that jfk and stalin were strippers. "We invited the strippers, jfk and Stalin" means the same thing with or without the Oxford comma. LEARN ENGLISH PLS.  Edit: I hope I'm right about this! You're wrong. In "we invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin", the phrase "JFK and Stalin" is an appositive describing the nearest noun, "strippers". An appositive is separated from the noun it describes by a comma. |
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We are communicating in a medium where "loose", "your", and "rouge" have become so common as substitutes for "lose", "you're", and "rogue" that I have been corrected for using the *right* words. Where anything more than a couple of hundred words triggers howls of "tldr", including on this very board.
And you pedantic twits are debating the Oxford comma?
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You're wrong. In "we invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin", the phrase "JFK and Stalin" is an appositive describing the nearest noun, "strippers". An appositive is separated from the noun it describes by a comma. I believe it's actually ambiguous. Appositive is separated out from the sentence on both sides, like a parenthetical. When it ends a sentence it become ambiguous because the separator is also the ending period. If you said "we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin, to lunch" that would be appositive. If you said "we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin to lunch" that would not because the appositive should be delineated by punctuation on both sides. And you pedantic twits are debating the Oxford comma?
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Samwise
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If you said "we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin to lunch" that would not because the appositive should be delineated by punctuation on both sides.
Well yes, but that's not the sentence we're talking about here. The sentence: We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin. is not in any way ambiguous if you assume that the Oxford comma will be used when appropriate -- "JFK and Stalin" is clearly its own phrase in that case because if it were part of the list it would have an Oxford comma in it. Which means that it can only be functioning as an appositive describing "strippers". |
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It isn't dead, the style guide was issued by the PR department not the Press. |
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"We took the strippers, JFK and Stalin to the party"
"We took the strippers, JFK and Stalin, to the party"
"We took the strippers, JFK, and Stalin to the party"
"We took the strippers, JFK, and Stalin, to the party"
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Margalis
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is not in any way ambiguous if you assume that the Oxford comma will be used when appropriate
But that's not a good assumption. Maybe the comic should read "this is what happens when you don't use the Oxford comma in a world were we assume that the Oxford comma is being used appropriately. Of course that's not our world, but still, that would be funny were it the case." |
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Less grammer, more funny pics!
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Why would you invite Stalin and JFK to a party with strippers? Stalin is such a bore and JFK would just monopolize their time.
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Shouldn't the comma and the period be inside the quotation marks?
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Shouldn't the comma and the period be inside the quotation marks? That rule has never made any amount of sense to me. It's not part of the sentence being quoted. |
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What if you're quoting a whole sentence, "Today I went to the bar."?
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is not in any way ambiguous if you assume that the Oxford comma will be used when appropriate
But that's not a good assumption. Well, right -- which is why it's an argument for the Oxford comma being returned to common usage. Because it would eliminate that particular ambiguity.  |
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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What are they even attempting in that America's Got Talent gif?
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Looks like they are trying a chair suspension trick but you usually do that from the feet side. It's the red X that makes the gif for me.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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