I see your importance of comma and raise you the importance of the Oxford comma.

Silvani · 16 days

When I was in second grade I asked my teacher if I needed to put a comma before the "and."

She said, "If you were the 'and' would you want a comma?"

I had no idea how to respond to that.

Fireyedwindsurfer · 16 days

"We invited JFK, Stalin and the strippers"

Your move, Oxford comma.

IStandUpForYou · 16 days

This is posted a bunch:

title	comnts	points	age	/r/
Thank God for the Oxford Comma	2^coms	-2^pts	13^dys	funny
commas are important. possibly [nsfw] for drawn titties with tassles.	15^coms	129^pts	7^mos	funny
The Oxford Comma is important	0^coms	6^pts	25^dys	funny
Oxford Comma	30^coms	442^pts	3^mos	funny
Why I still use the Oxford Comma [Fixed]	10^coms	15^pts	6^mos	funny
I give a fuck about the Oxford comma	1^com	-9^pts	11^mos	pics
Grammar is important, kids!	1017^coms	1888^pts	11^mos	funny
A lesson on grammar and strippers.....	1^com	-8^pts	10^mos	funny
How the Oxford Comma Changed History	1^com	13^pts	9^mos	funny

source: karmadecay

gelogenicjess · 16 days

I think that the Oxford comma should be used when it will clarify, and not used when it will make something ambiguous. What about the sentence: We invited the stripper, JFK, and Stalin. That implies that JFK is a stripper, so it should be left out in that instance. Ambiguity goes both ways.

Gumbola · 16 days

In all actuality the Oxford Comma can be used at the discretion of the writer. For Journalists, particularly those taught the guidelines of AP style, it is seen as a redundancy of sorts.

Journalists look to make writing as clear and concise as possible (i.e.-no wordy, complex sentences or punctuation). Most readers understand that whatever word or phrase follows the "and" of a list is merely the conclusion. Thus there is little necessity for the third comma.

The morree you knooowww.

dsade · 16 days

You know they make your dictator hard.

alcoholic_crow · 16 days

Stalin might have had a harder time being a dictator if photos of him wearing nipple tassels were on the front page of every major newspaper in the world.

ArsenicAcid · 16 days

In the second form, a semicolon would be the proper usage. I would still assume that it is the strippers, JFK, and Stalin without one. Yay for semicolon.

Chriamon · 16 days

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

jumpingpomegranate · 16 days

If it is to depict the picture shown then I'm pretty sure the second one would need to be, "We invited the strippers: JFK and Stalin."

amstan · 16 days

I would use a ':' in that case.

crose1900 · 16 days

I LOVE GRAMMAR

rage_rave · 16 days

Damn it, the vampire weekend joke has been made. Ill be back... shakes fist at the sky

Shellion · 16 days

I'm actually a huge fan of the Oxford comma.

giantasparagus · 16 days

Is this different than a normal comma?

callipygian1 · 16 days

i helped my uncle jack off a horse!

Est1911 · 16 days

WHY WOULD YOU LIE ABOUT HOW MUCH COAL YOU HAD?

APinkRobot · 16 days

So let me get this straight... With the Oxford comma it's a party, but without the Oxford comma it's a PARTY!

The_Curly_Wiener · 16 days

My english teacher last year had this hung in her class room

[deleted] · 16 days

I wouldn't say it's that important.

"we invited jfk, stalin and the strippers". English is hard, rite?

opiv · 16 days

In 10th grade english I told my teacher there was a mistake because it was missing an oxford comma. Her reply, 'what's an oxford comma?'

Never before have i looked down on a teacher so hard

oyeboy · 16 days

Wouldn't you use a colon? "The strippers: JFK and Stalin.

dashboard82 · 16 days

Stop recycling for your own karma whoring ways...

emospartan911 · 16 days

by the oatmeal.

rj2896 · 16 days

Last year in English class my teacher used a school appropriate version of this and wouldn't tell us what the original version was. I felt almost clever knowing that I was the only one in the class that knew the original.

krispyKRAKEN · 16 days

Now if only OP could see the importance of not reposting things that are already beaten to death

Novaova · 16 days

They can have my Oxford comma when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

magicalsealion · 16 days

Who gives a fuckaboutan oxford comma?

sillyguppy · 16 days

aaaaaaand.... it's a repost. again.

chipsnow · 16 days

iMSicKoFfGraMmerNaZIES....'

SealOnTheLoose · 16 days

http://youtu.be/P_i1xk07o4g

Major_Motoko · 16 days

2nd Year in University English Class the prof is harping on grammar. "If anyone has ONE grammar error immediate F."

I ask her if she cares about the Oxford Comma and her response "I don't know what that is"

mfw You're teaching English??

misterfanwank · 16 days

*facepalm*

This shit drives me crazy because it shows people DO understand apposition... But when I use it properly and the result has a fuckton of commas people bitch at me for improper comma use.

Example:

The man, who was a guard of the prison, that was located in the hills, was killed by a shiv, that was made of bone, by an escaped prisoner, who harvested his ulna to make the shiv.

There are a lot of commas in that, but they're all properly used. I guarantee you some jackass, who thinks he understands English, will give me flak about it.

Kevlaru · 16 days

Ok, so what if you are informing oxford and stallin that you invited the strippers? is it "We invited the strippers, oxford and stallin." ? And is it considered an oxford comma or not?

up_the_brackett · 16 days

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dreamsofbetterdays · 16 days

This should posted in every elementary english class

DagdaEIR · 16 days

TIL the Oxford comma is a thing. I always use it because it seems grammatically incorrect if I don't. And I used to always get given out to by my teachers for it. :/

ryanoh · 16 days

TIL that I've been using the Oxford Comma for years, despite teachers telling me it was not a needed comma.

872020 · 16 days

Repost

royboy24139 · 16 days

grrrr reposts

cattolicamolestator · 16 days

In answer to Vampire Weekend's question "Who gives a fuck about the Oxford comma?" I would have to reply reddit.

TaserWieldingBear · 16 days

Or, you could just write more clearly.

"We invited JFK, Stalin and the strippers."

crystalblisters · 16 days

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? I've seen those English dramas, too.

Heretical_Fool · 16 days

TIL I've been using an "Oxford comma" since 1st grade.

trublwithnorml · 16 days

I think the second picture would be described with no commas, not one. So with or without the second comma, there's still 4 people.

iPeeLavaLampGoo · 16 days

I see your repost and raise you a downvote. That didn't make much sense, did it?

duz32 · 16 days

This is one of those few times that I saw something on facebook before reddit.

Mr_Mudkip · 16 days

This gets reposted again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

pinkat31522 · 16 days

Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma ♪

ChriSoccer13 · 16 days

With Reddit these days, I'm surprised this wasn't labelled NSFW..

wackybaccy · 16 days

JFK+Stalin=Freddie Mercury? NO!

ketostarcraft · 16 days

For the tenth god damn time....

smurphatron · 16 days

True, but consider the following re-ordered list.

"We invited Stalin, the stripper and JFK"

That works fine. Now try it with the Oxford comma:

"We invited Stalin, the stripper, and JFK"

This time, the comma creates ambiguity.

JTMTL · 16 days

Cool post.

funny

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