Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law.
Took me a minute of googling to be vaguely sure you meant what I think you mean: the comma marking the end of your dependant interjectory clause there?
at least in America**,**
If so: I have no idea what you are talking about, that’s drilled into us in school. Maybe people get lazy on the Internet but it is part of the rules and gets taught and used here
If I’ve misunderstood: what are you talking about, then?
For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That’s when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.
Oxford Comma.
*Serial comma[1]
The even smaller hill I’ll die on. ↩︎
I reject, protest and censure your endorsement of the Oxford Comma.
Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million
My company has standardized document templates and none of them have Oxford commas. I will go through and add them any time I have to use one.
To this day I use it and refuse any other option.
Fuck yeah.
Also missing from sub-clauses, at least in America, is the trailing delimiter comma.
I’m a comma-crazed Burgerstani, and I use those as well as the serial comma.
Took me a minute of googling to be vaguely sure you meant what I think you mean: the comma marking the end of your dependant interjectory clause there?
If so: I have no idea what you are talking about, that’s drilled into us in school. Maybe people get lazy on the Internet but it is part of the rules and gets taught and used here
If I’ve misunderstood: what are you talking about, then?
Are you for or against it? I mean, it does have it’s uses.
For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That’s when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.