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This is why you use the oxford comma kids, I think they’re trying to talk about
and the like, not PPB
Fuck you for hijacking my post to spread Oxford comma propaganda
Peace, land bread!
Land bread? As opposed to all that sea bread!?
I'm told that the inexplicable contradiction of English grammar being bizarrely strict in some unwritten ways but absurdly choose your own adventure in others drives new English learners bonkers.
Grammscists
But in all seriousness, I fully support oxford comma use.
Sorry, but it makes communication clearer! It's already way too easy to accidentally miscommunicate when we're not talking face-to-face.
My actual stance that Oxford commas are fine to use when they are needed for clarity, which is almost never
I get what you're saying, but I do think that it's a good idea to just default to the oxford comma, since it doesn't detract from clarity even in cases when it maybe wasn't necessary, and there are definitely situations where its absence impedes communication. Especially since it can be hard to tell when you're not communicating well sometimes, since you're in your own head and you know what you mean.
But they clutter up a sentence
Well that's, just, your opinion, man