Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Richards]

Sure. But do you want to contend that COMSEC paperwork is not Lawful Evil?

No way. COMSEC paperwork is the epitome of Lawful Evil.

Johnathan

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Fonts are sometimes fun to use, but they’re rarely crucial.

Punctuation rules like the Oxford comma, OTOH, can really wreck your prose if ignored at the wrong moment.

 

[trappedslider]

Fonts are sometimes fun to use, but they’re rarely crucial.

Punctuation rules like the Oxford comma, OTOH, can really wreck your prose if ignored at the wrong moment.

It also saves lives:

"Let's eat grandpa" vs "Let's eat, Grandpa." One means you're a cannibal and the other doesn't

 

[billd91]

Fonts are sometimes fun to use, but they’re rarely crucial.

I might amend that to say within certain bounds, they're rarely crucial. It's like having freedom to pick the color of your tie... as long as you're wearing a proper suit and not a clown suit.

 

[Richards]

I'll just point out here that clown suit ties are often multicolored. Just sayin'.

Johnathan

 

[prabe]

It also saves lives:

"Let's eat grandpa" vs "Let's eat, Grandpa." One means you're a cannibal and the other doesn't

That's not the Oxford comma (used in a list); that's commas around direct address.

 

[billd91]

That's not the Oxford comma (used in a list); that's commas around direct address.

Omitting that comma is sometimes known as the Donner Option.

 

[prabe]

Omitting that comma is sometimes known as the Donner Option.

Around direct address? I'd never seen a term for omitting it--I've understood it to practically always been an error.

I've seen omission of the Oxford comma referred to as the "Cambridge comma" before, though.

 

[billd91]

Around direct address? I'd never seen a term for omitting it--I've understood it to practically always been an error.

I've seen omission of the Oxford comma referred to as the "Cambridge comma" before, though.

Would the joke have been better if I had said "Bypassing that particular comma is sometimes known as the Donner Pass"?

 

[Richards]

Johnathan