Finally, Libertarians and Progressives Uniting to Take On a Critical Issue
To answer Drum's question, I think the problem may be the name. "Oxford comma" sounds stuffy and pretentious and 19th century. Maybe we can call it the Kardashian comma or something.
kidmugsy:
The best universities are Stanford, MIT, and Washington and Lee. Case made, I'd say.
November 14, 2015, 8:31 amJ Storrs Hall:
A well regulated Grammar, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Commas, shall not be infringed.
November 14, 2015, 10:53 amErikTheRed:
What about two spaces after a period?
http://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2015/10/02
November 14, 2015, 1:25 pmSamWah:
Will Kardashian commas have big butts?
November 14, 2015, 2:08 pmjdgalt:
Not to mention the right to insert superfluous commas (which the Oxford comma is not, but the parodied sentence in the Second Amendment has two that don't belong, and one of them once caused a serious misinterpretation).
November 14, 2015, 3:15 pmjdgalt:
The way to render that in HTML is to insert " " after the period. Like this!
November 14, 2015, 3:16 pmobloodyhell:
Awwww, dammit. You mean I actually have to AGREE with that idiot Drum on something? He had a pretty good record going of taking remarkably stupid positions....
November 16, 2015, 12:23 amobloodyhell:
They will and I cannot lie.
November 16, 2015, 12:24 amAdriana:
In Amer'ca, we call it a goddamn Harvard comma. Go back to Europe.
November 18, 2015, 10:58 am