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minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down15·3 days agoYe olde missing Oxford comma strikes again
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-23 days agoThe Oxford comma is when you have a list of things that have basically one more comma than usual, following the penultimate member of the list. Oxford: Red, green, and blue. Standard: Red, green and blue. … The thing that is missing from the OP sentence that dramatically alters its meaning is the word ‘with’, not a comma.
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agocomma could fix it i miss eating out, my friends then it is a plea to a group
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 days ago… that would substantially change the meaning, away from what the OP themself indicated they meant to convey. That also would not be a usage of the Oxford comma, as that comma would be doing a different grammatical job than deliniating items in a list. It would be deliniating a vocative phrase. Yes, it does… make it into a workable sentence … but it would not be an Oxford comma.
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 days agosure but it works for the sake of the oxford comma ‘joke’ bit of a dead horse but people love it
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoI genuienly do not understand what you mean.
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 hours agonot everything has to be literal for the joke to land people love this stupid comma joke
Ye olde missing Oxford comma strikes again
The Oxford comma is when you have a list of things that have basically one more comma than usual, following the penultimate member of the list.
Oxford: Red, green, and blue.
Standard: Red, green and blue.
… The thing that is missing from the OP sentence that dramatically alters its meaning is the word ‘with’, not a comma.
comma could fix it
i miss eating out, my friends
then it is a plea to a group
… that would substantially change the meaning, away from what the OP themself indicated they meant to convey.
That also would not be a usage of the Oxford comma, as that comma would be doing a different grammatical job than deliniating items in a list.
It would be deliniating a vocative phrase.
Yes, it does… make it into a workable sentence … but it would not be an Oxford comma.
sure but it works for the sake of the oxford comma ‘joke’
bit of a dead horse but people love it
I genuienly do not understand what you mean.
not everything has to be literal for the joke to land
people love this stupid comma joke