Jay Stooksberry
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Professional word nerd. Managing editor at Commonwealth Foundation. Occasional writer at @reason.com. Author of "Oxford Mania." Scourge of #TeamOxford. Opinions and bad jokes are my own. You can't have them. www.jaystooksberry.com www.oxfordmania.com
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…and when idiots put an Oxford comma in front of it, it looks like they left a dingleberry on the rug
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I tend to roll my eyes at people who get fanatical about elements of style or grammar as if they are handed down from on high the serial comma ("oxford since 1978) is more often useful than not, but can introduce ambiguity in some cases. as with all grammar, go with clarity.
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Another example where the Syntax is the problem, not punctuation. I wish to thank Mother Theresa, the Pope and my parents.
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No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.
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What’s fun is after this the vile Piers Morgan is like “but didn’t you say you wanted this to happen to Somali people in America?” and he proceeds to say a bunch of racist things about how they deserve it unlike British people, so uh, not a lot of progress on the whole degrading human beings thing
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