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Aeson

I am the mysterious professor.

• Jan 18, 2022

• #14,911

This is serious....sorta.

If I'm talking about a panda that is a vegan, and an assassin, is the vegan redundant? Would I say the vegan assassin panda? The vegan panda assassin? Do I need a comma? Englishing is hard. Is it any clearer in other languages? Do they have an Oslo comma, a Odessa comma, or Oxnard comma?

 

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CleverNickName

Limit Break Dancing (He/They)

• Jan 18, 2022

• #14,912

"If you can clarify your writing with a single stroke of your pen, why wouldn't you?"
- Kathy Johnson, my 8th grade English teacher, on the subject of the Oxford comma.

 

J.Quondam

CR 1/8

• Jan 18, 2022

• #14,913

Aeson said:

This is serious....sorta.

If I'm talking about a panda that is a vegan, and an assassin, is the vegan redundant? Would I say the vegan assassin panda? The vegan panda assassin? Do I need a comma? Englishing is hard. Is it any clearer in other languages? Do they have an Oslo comma, a Odessa comma, or Oxnard comma?

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Not sure about Oslo or Oxnard, but I can confirm that has no special commas.



* Perhaps I should have used semicolons!

 

Last edited: Aug 27, 2022

Dannyalcatraz

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• Jan 18, 2022

• #14,914

Aeson said:

This is serious....sorta.

If I'm talking about a panda that is a vegan, and an assassin, is the vegan redundant? Would I say the vegan assassin panda? The vegan panda assassin? Do I need a comma? Englishing is hard. Is it any clearer in other languages? Do they have an Oslo comma, a Odessa comma, or Oxnard comma?

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You need the comma, at least with that word order. Without it, a potential reading is that the panda assassinates vegans.

 

Blackrat

He Who Lurks Beyond The Veil

• Jan 18, 2022

• #14,915

Is this the panda that eats, shoots, and leaves?

 

J.Quondam

CR 1/8

• Jan 18, 2022

• #14,916

Blackrat said:

Is this the panda that eats, shoots, and leaves?

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No, I think it's the panda that eats shoots and leaves. As a vegan, this assassin kills his vegetal targets by consuming them.

 

CleverNickName

Limit Break Dancing (He/They)

• Jan 18, 2022

• #14,917

Maybe the panda is killing for sport?

 

Dannyalcatraz

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• Jan 19, 2022

• #14,918

 

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Aeson

I am the mysterious professor.

• Jan 19, 2022

• #14,919

Even the non English speakers heard of this before me. Maybe I did but don't remember.

 

trappedslider

Legend

• Jan 19, 2022

• #14,920

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