billd91
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What makes you think the panda is shooting a gun?The thing that always bothered me about this example is Panda's can't shoot guns.
What makes you think the panda is shooting a gun?The thing that always bothered me about this example is Panda's can't shoot guns.
What makes you think the panda is shooting a gun?
The thing that always bothered me about this example is Panda's can't shoot guns. So there is never going to be a person who reads that sentence (provided we are not talking about an anthropomorphic panda), and misreads A as B. Also that sentence without the Oxford comma is "The panda eats, shoots and leaves", so even if it is an anthropomorphic panda, there isn't much ambiguity in the sentence without the oxford comma. My feeling is if people want to use the oxford comma in every instance, they are free to do so. I think there is a better argument to be made to use it when it helps avoid ambiguity when context doesn't make the meaning clear (but I also have to admit, I like ambiguity in writing).
It's a silly example to make it more entertaining. Don't fixate on the panda. The principle applies to any similarly constructed sentence.The thing that always bothered me about this example is Panda's can't shoot guns. So there is never going to be a person who reads that sentence (provided we are not talking about an anthropomorphic panda), and misreads A as B. Also that sentence without the Oxford comma is "The panda eats, shoots and leaves", so even if it is an anthropomorphic panda, there isn't much ambiguity in the sentence without the oxford comma. My feeling is if people want to use the oxford comma in every instance, they are free to do so. I think there is a better argument to be made to use it when it helps avoid ambiguity when context doesn't make the meaning clear (but I also have to admit, I like ambiguity in writing).
It's a silly example to make it more entertaining. Don't fixate on the panda. The principle applies to any similarly constructed sentence.
If it bothers you, replace "panda" with another word of your choice. The panda is irrelevant. It's just funny.
The assassin is a vegan, targets only vegans, or kills only vegetables?"The vegan assassin..."
The thing that always bothered me about this example is Panda's can't shoot guns.
It's a silly example to make it more entertaining. Don't fixate on the panda. The principle applies to any similarly constructed sentence.
If it bothers you, replace "panda" with another word of your choice. The panda is irrelevant. It's just funny.
I mean, you can fixate on whatever you want to, of course, but you're being rather distracted from the actual debate by focusing on the decorations.I understand but that was also just one of my points. My other addresses swapping out the panda with something that could plausibly shoot. I think this example still doesn't really serve as a good argument for always using the oxford comma: "The assassin eats, shoots and leaves" is still pretty clear, without an oxford comma.