Ugh all the time. I’m liberal, well educated, and nerdy. Notice my use of an Oxford comma! I also happen to live in a rural town in Texas. I play pool in a league and let’s just say kindred spirits are few and far between.
Agreed. The Oxford comma is superfluous in a list of adjectives.
If you’re listing adjectives that modify a single noun, there is no ambiguous regrouping of those adjectives that can change their meaning. They all still modify the noun. If you are listing nouns, as in the popular “strippers, JFK, and Stalin” meme, then there is room for confusion and the comma helps to clarify.
Regardless, if the intent is clear, it’s a silly rule to get nitpicky about. Fuck the haters.
The only rule that really matters in the end is to take good care of your readers. The little rules only ease the burden; if you want rules about how to talk, do software instead of English.
It changes how I read it though. I expect the list to continue so I read it as if it will, then it doesn’t and the rhythm is off. Not a huge deal, like you say, the intent is clear enough. But it does still add clarity for intended sentence fluency, at least for those of us with strict Oxford comma discipline, lol.
Ugh all the time. I’m liberal, well educated, and nerdy. Notice my use of an Oxford comma! I also happen to live in a rural town in Texas. I play pool in a league and let’s just say kindred spirits are few and far between.
You say you’re a liberal, so you’re either a wealthy, greedy dick; or actually not well educated at all.
Americans use the word liberal to mean democrat voter. Ist vey confusing.
I don’t know about that one, the democratic party is plenty liberal.
It gets ignorant and confusing if someone by liberal mean left-wing
Jargon on the internet is the enemy of clarity, little buddy, not its friend
The comma after ‘educated’ is redundant, since its purpose is already met by the word ‘and’.
Edit: I honestly wasn’t quite sure if I was correct here but was feeling pedantic and now the downvotes tickle me.
Your determination is admirable. 🫡
You can peel the Oxford comma from my cold, dead, and rigor mortised hands.
Agreed. The Oxford comma is superfluous in a list of adjectives.
If you’re listing adjectives that modify a single noun, there is no ambiguous regrouping of those adjectives that can change their meaning. They all still modify the noun. If you are listing nouns, as in the popular “strippers, JFK, and Stalin” meme, then there is room for confusion and the comma helps to clarify.
Regardless, if the intent is clear, it’s a silly rule to get nitpicky about. Fuck the haters.
The only rule that really matters in the end is to take good care of your readers. The little rules only ease the burden; if you want rules about how to talk, do software instead of English.
It changes how I read it though. I expect the list to continue so I read it as if it will, then it doesn’t and the rhythm is off. Not a huge deal, like you say, the intent is clear enough. But it does still add clarity for intended sentence fluency, at least for those of us with strict Oxford comma discipline, lol.