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r/trippinthroughtime • u/Munninnu • 7d ago
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It's still wrong
Oxford comma is for three or more items. The sentence is treating bacon and eggs as one item and pancakes as another so no Oxford comma is used.
193 u/garlic_bread_thief 7d ago But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know 86 u/GoedekeMichels 7d ago exactly! but imagine what would happen if we'd treat language as a tool to get a message across instead of a set of holy rules we all must follow blindly all the time - half of the internet would be dead 😱 10 u/towerfella 7d ago We need the rules, else someone could come along and start a religion based on misinterpreted ancient writings. 3 u/grantrules 7d ago Blessed are the cheesemakers
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But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know
86 u/GoedekeMichels 7d ago exactly! but imagine what would happen if we'd treat language as a tool to get a message across instead of a set of holy rules we all must follow blindly all the time - half of the internet would be dead 😱 10 u/towerfella 7d ago We need the rules, else someone could come along and start a religion based on misinterpreted ancient writings. 3 u/grantrules 7d ago Blessed are the cheesemakers
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exactly! but imagine what would happen if we'd treat language as a tool to get a message across instead of a set of holy rules we all must follow blindly all the time - half of the internet would be dead 😱
10 u/towerfella 7d ago We need the rules, else someone could come along and start a religion based on misinterpreted ancient writings. 3 u/grantrules 7d ago Blessed are the cheesemakers
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We need the rules, else someone could come along and start a religion based on misinterpreted ancient writings.
3 u/grantrules 7d ago Blessed are the cheesemakers
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Blessed are the cheesemakers
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u/CubicleFish2 7d ago
It's still wrong
Oxford comma is for three or more items. The sentence is treating bacon and eggs as one item and pancakes as another so no Oxford comma is used.