• @[email protected]
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    1411 month ago

    groan

    Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point uses the comma the way you think it should be used

    • Ech
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      481 month ago

      My actual reaction. I’m still gonna use it, but blegh.

      • @LostOperative
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        71 month ago

        I mean at the end of the day, Who Gives a Fuck About an Oxford Comma?

          • @[email protected]
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            31 month ago

            thank God you didn’t confuse us by thinking you were referring to yourself twice at the same time separately instead of twice, twice.

          • Jessica
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            41 month ago

            Honestly same. Let’s hope he thinks the Oxford Comma is a neat martini dusted in Vicodin.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          I do find issue with your capitalization, with Trump I find fault with his capitalization. Slight difference

        • @nadiaraven
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          21 month ago

          Vampire Weekend does! This is some deep nostalgia for me that you’ve just dug up.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 month ago

      Hitler introduced better protection for animals. I’m not going to say I like him, but I’m with him on this one.

      • @Buddahriffic
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        51 month ago

        He also gave up his inheritance to his single mother sister. Overall his bad dominated his good and he deserved a humiliating death like Mussolini or Gaddafi, but there was some good there.

        Though it’s interesting that Trump’s “good” is a grammar preference. Trump isn’t more bad than Hitler but he might be less good.

  • @AnalogyAddict
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    721 month ago

    Just because the man is capable of one good decision in his life, doesn’t mean he should run the country. Just sayin’.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 month ago

        I think the implication is that people who are anti-woke are stupid so those are the ones you have to convince to use the Oxford comma since intelligent people already see the benefit.

        • @morphballganon
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          Intelligent people avoid being redundant, though. The and/or is a substitute for the Oxford comma.

          • @Gardienne
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            81 month ago

            Tell that to the two strippers, JFK and Stalin.

            • @morphballganon
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              -21 month ago

              I see you fell for the humorous disinformation, like many others.

              • @Gardienne
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                21 month ago

                Mate no one’s gonna believe you didn’t mean what you said. Next time just own up to it and move on.

                • @morphballganon
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                  01 month ago

                  Of course I meant it. The OC is redundant. People who use the JFK/Stalin anecdote are demonstrating a reliance upon memorization rather than logic as a basis of syntax.

          • @Klear
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            11 month ago

            Nah, it can be fun to be needlessly redundant.

    • @Darkard
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      And, have, people, write, like, this,? No thanks

      • ivanafterall
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        291 month ago

        Figures the Oxford comma opponent wouldn’t know how to use an Oxford comma.

        • Optional
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          71 month ago

          NERRRRRRRD FIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!

          runs away quickly, falls down

        • @[email protected]
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          I think the implication might have been that stupid people will incorrectly use it overemphatically, not that he is against the comma itself, but i could be wrong

          • @Darkard
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            Correct, and it looks like everyone missed that that it was a joke at the end too. Oh well.

      • @Kelly
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        51 month ago

        No, thanks

        FTFY

    • @ghostdoggtv
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      11 month ago

      Draft: new tweet: “Coffee county…”

      (Staffer sees what he’s writing and a struggle for the phone ensues)

  • @jplate8
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    111 month ago

    Kate Christobek is not a fan of the Oxford comma

  • @[email protected]
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    91 month ago

    There had to be something we’d have in common. Now that I know he’s an Oxford comma man, he’s got my vote!

  • @JustZ
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    81 month ago

    Trump is a dumb slob who can’t read or write on his own.

  • HEXN3T
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    81 month ago

    I use it the Oxford comma the truly correct way.

    Situationally.

    • @bitwaba
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      I use it geographically.

      You know what they say. When in Oxford…

      • @bitwaba
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        When it changes the meaning.

        I went to dinner with two idiots, Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

        Vs

        I went to dinner with two idiots, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.

        If you intend for the reader to think you went to dinner with two people, treating the Oxford comma as mandatory is going to add ambiguity at best and change the meaning at worst.

      • HEXN3T
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        31 month ago

        Mostly in script. Specifically with adjectives.

        “I found myself surrounded by giant trees, massive ferns and strange mushrooms.”

        If this line were to be spoken aloud, the last two subjects would not have a pause between them. It’s a picky me thing, to be honest. I’m extremely obsessive about grammar.

  • Tier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸
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    81 month ago

    I’m sure Hitler enjoyed breathing air too but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong or that I’m going to stop

  • PP_BOY_
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    61 month ago

    Never thought I’d agree with Trump on something.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    41 month ago

    Hes an ox, yes, but not nearly as useful