133
What is the smallest hill you would die on?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
133 points (98.5% liked)
Asklemmy
47845 readers
858 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
Oxford Comma.
*Serial comma[^1]
[^1]: The even smaller hill I’ll die on.
TIL.
My company has standardized document templates and none of them have Oxford commas. I will go through and add them any time I have to use one.
To this day I use it and refuse any other option.
I reject, protest and censure your endorsement of the Oxford Comma.
Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million
Fuck yeah.
Also missing from sub-clauses, at least in America, is the trailing delimiter comma.
I’m a comma-crazed Burgerstani, and I use those as well as the serial comma.
Took me a minute of googling to be vaguely sure you meant what I think you mean: the comma marking the end of your dependant interjectory clause there?
If so: I have no idea what you are talking about, that's drilled into us in school. Maybe people get lazy on the Internet but it is part of the rules and gets taught and used here
If I've misunderstood: what are you talking about, then?
Are you for or against it? I mean, it does have it's uses.
For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That's when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.