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RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
Movies watched in-flight: Ocean's 8 (2018) and The Fall Guy (2024). I like a good heist film, and Ocean's 8 is pleasant -- it has a lot of stars who get to do cool stuff, and the story fits well with the previous Ocean's films. The Fall Guy was another pleasant movie. I remember some people telling me earlier this year that they didn't like the unrealistic stunt being used to advance the plot, which is funny because I watched the TV show in the Eighties, and every single episode hinged on an unrealistic stunt being used to advance the plot. Like, if they hadn't done that, it wouldn't have been a Fall Guy movie! I think this is like if anybody complained about the kind-of-hokey fight scenes in The A-Team movie, when that was something seen in every episode of the TV show...
payn
Glory to Marik
Agreed, I enjoyed The Fall Guy and really didn't care about a plot driven stunt sequence in a movie about a stuntman.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I would be, but as @Ryujin suggests, it may be a field-specific issue. I can definitely see technical and legal writing really valuing comma usage, as there are some very famous and expensive whoopsies when they weren't used as needed.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
It's a tool to be used. Just because a screwdriver is really important to use when turning a screw means it should be used in every job, which is what the memes seem to suggest.
Ryujin
Legend
There are some other rather notable fields in which the presence or absence of a comma, in a document, has resulted a great deal of headache. Such as <insert document here that would be immediately recognizable to the lawyers on the board, but cannot really be discussed>.
Sometimes, the importance of a proper font is not obvious until it's too late.
(most of the signs I wanted to post do not meet ENWorld guidelines)
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
The way I see it? If you're truly that worried about comma usage, you're in pretty good shape. You've gotten past so many more important and egregious grammar and punctuation hurdles: you're using semicolons correctly, you've mastered there/their/they're, you know when to use "its" and "it's," you know how to use an apostrophe + S with a name that ends in S...
If you're fussing over the Oxford comma, of all things? Yeah, you're golden.
If you're fussing over the Oxford comma, of all things? Yeah, you're golden.
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overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
I'm a professional writer and have been a professional editor. Most writers care a lot about "silly things" like the Oxford comma, others don't care at all. Some care way, way too much. It takes all kinds.
I've also been a professional book designer. The wrong font can utterly ruin a book. Too many kinds of fonts on a page can ruin the page. Etc. It's one of the reasons I love to hate Mörk Borg. I love me some punk zine/poster design, but MB is just an eye sore.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Yeah, I changed my tune. I'm not a book writer and don't know any authors well. The writers I know are in an entirely different field and view the Oxford comma as a tool to be brought out when appropriate, but using it otherwise is a stylistic choice. The people in my community who get really wound up about it -- in the way I often see non-writers get passionate about it -- are seen as oddballs.
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