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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJill Stein, Susan Sarandon and Ralph Nader walked into a bar...
So what do you think, we should use a serial comma, or not use a serial comma?
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Jill Stein, Susan Sarandon and Ralph Nader walked into a bar... (Original Post)
Voltaire2
Sep 2017
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Bucky
(53,986 posts)1. I feel a little ripped off by the body of this post
but among the smart set, it's called the Oxford Comma
Voltaire2
(12,986 posts)3. the brits don't own the serial comma. We all know it is the Harvard comma.
BainsBane
(53,026 posts)6. I've always heard it called the Oxford comma
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)15. Thread win!
Hekate
(90,616 posts)2. Mmmm, Frosted Flakes
(cereal)
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)4. Time for dinner! Let's eat Stein, Sarandon and Nader.
I vote enough commas as is, no more needed or desirable.
Expecting Rain
(811 posts)5. Fuck, them, all, and the horse they rode in on.
Response to Voltaire2 (Original post)
Warren DeMontague This message was self-deleted by its author.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)8. Bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve losers."
trueblue2007
(17,202 posts)9. Beat them all up ????
ismnotwasm
(41,973 posts)10. "We'll all have White Russians" they say
yardwork
(61,588 posts)13. Thread win.
greeny2323
(590 posts)11. Can we get an Obama comma? :)
NBachers
(17,096 posts)14. A comma's not the only thing missing.