Revisiting an Old Debate: The Oxford Comma

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Only heathens would not use the Oxford comma.

Correct ruling in this case.

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I used to use it. Kept getting redlined by superiors

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They were your superiors in name only.

Back in the 1800s there was a customs regualtion that was supposed to read "all breadfruit trees free from duty", but instead got written -- and passed -- as "all bread, fruit trees free from duty".

It cost the fed gov't something like $2M before it could be fixed

Re the Oxford comma: there's an old National Review debate over it that may still be online. Eventually WF Buckley simply threw up his hands and wrote "The subject is now closed".

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Eventually WF Buckley simply threw up his hands and wrote "The subject is now closed".

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Did he put the punctuation outside the quotation?

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Did he put the punctuation outside the quotation?

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He was writing English.

Yeah that has nothing to do with the Oxford comma. That sentence says nothing about the delivery drivers...just the people who are using various methods of packing for the delivery.

I do not use it.

To me, the "and" in principle acts as the final comma.

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The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment, or distribution of:

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With the oxford comma it does. That's what the whole lawsuit is about.....