Oxford Comma

[Willie the Duck]

Embrace disambiguation!
Embrace semicolons!

The Oxford Semicolon is the mightiest of beasts, but almost as powerful are the Oxford Tilde and the Oxford Left Chevron bracket.

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[Cadence]

I'm just surprised it took almost a half-hour for someone to post that Vampire Weekend music video.

I was disappointed that the song doesn't really have any major comma goofiness in it though

 

[Cadence]

Oh heck, not this conversation again! I can literally quote every post in advance!

Using them there would keep it consistent with some usage elsewhere on the site, such as in the rules.

 

[Eltab]

Weird Al Yankovic's song "Word Crimes" touches on this subject.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Weird Al Yankovic's song "Word Crimes" touches on this subject.

This is the best Weird Al song ever, and no one can convince me otherwise.

 

[MNblockhead]

 

[Lanefan]

Comma Chameleon?

 

[Aeson]

The panda eats shoots and leaves.
The panda eats, shoots, and leaves.

The comma makes the difference between the panda being far left, or far right.

 

[Umbran]

The comma makes the difference between the panda being far left, or far right.

Can we not make this about real world politics?

 

[Aeson]

Can we not make this about real world politics?

Of course. I just read the post and noticed the extremes of the two sentences. I wasn't aware of the example, though it seems to be from a book. That was the reaction I had when I read it. I hadn't thought how drastic the change could be just by adding, or leaving out punctuation.