Where does /lit/ stand on the oxford comma?

This question is retarded as fuck. It's always been the second since the dawn of times. Fuck Oxford degenerates.

>>9388522
Should be mandatory to prevent ambiguity.

I like when proles see a thing and go

>Haha! I get it! I get the thing! I'll remake it, by swapping other things into it, and I'll be doing a thing too!
>Orange you glad I didn't say.. PINEAPPLE? Haha! Now I'm the Top prole!

Fucking gas whoever made this image. This is the death of humanity happening in real time. You see a fucking thing and you like it and your disgusting mass brain goes "uMMM I DO IT TOO NOW?" instead of "a unique creation! I'll uniquely create things too now!"

YOU DON'T JUST FUCKING DO THJE EXACT SAME THING WITH A DIFFERENT HAT

Does the English even have the strict rules on commas?

Be consistent and no one will give a fuck. Their are potential ambiguities to using either. Just write better sentences.

>>9388544
English is a nigga monkey-tier language, it barely has rules at all

>>9388556
This. Not surprised they don't have rules for this.

>>9388542
This reads like Reddit

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>mfw I went to Oxford and never used the Oxford comma in my essays

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Should not there be a colon there? "Two rinoceri: Washington and Lincoln"?

>>9388522
Neither is objectively correct. I think it's the preferred option to avoid ambiguity though, it just visually separates the last two items in a list better.

>>9388522
Sometimes the last two items in a list can be misinterpreted if not separated.
Like like when making a list of people that includes those faggots, anon and op.

>>9388979
Anon and OP are a priori faggots, that doesn't need to be explained.

>>9388989
I still could have been referring to separate faggots in addition to anon and OP

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>>9388522
I fuck with the oxford comma

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>>9388605
>mfw I don't go to Oxford and use the Oxford comma in my essays

Sometimes it improves clarity so I use it sometimes

>all these mouthbreathers saying they use the Oxford comma sometimes
You either use it or you don't. You can't pick and choose when you use it. Did you idiots ever go to university or is it summer already?

>>9388539
It's almost like the use of it introduces as many ambiguities as it solves, oh wait it does.

>>9389642
Truly barbaric.

>We invited Washington, Lincoln and the rhinoceri.

WOW.
By using my world class understanding of the english language I have successfully eliminated any confusion involved in the sentence AND saved a whole character worth of space.

>>9390196
wow unless you're a fucking journalist, saving one character is not useful...i hate it when plebs read these "style guides" or "rules for writers" by and for journalists and then want to apply it to non-hack writing

>>9390196
Now its Washington and a band called Lincoln and the rhenoceri

>>9390555
not true, missing and for two item list

I like it, and I'm smarter than you.

>>9390708
There is no such thing as non liberal media kid

>>9388542
I cannot even comprehend this post.

I don't get why people don't like it, it provides far greater clarity yet I was graded lower for using it in high school because it is "incorrect"

>>9391149
i was taught not to use it in elementary, and was always corrected for not using it in high school. im now in college and i refuse to use the oxford comma just because some young rebellious part of me grew up learning that specific way.
its sort of like those people who still type on typewriters even though we have laptops now.

>>9388931
This. Both examples are wrong and any arguing over them is stupid.

>>9391165
>its sort of like those people who still type on typewriters even though we have laptops now.
thats.... completely different

>>9388522
English is for rednecks and Chinese

>>9391149
How many times does it have to be pointed out in this thread but neither way is more clear than the other. They both suffer from ambiguities.

>>9391201

Pondering on enterpreneurial Redneck Chinese because nobility wouldn't have any incentive to learn English.

>>9391200
no it isnt. i imagine there's a lot of older writers who grew up writing on typewriters and still use them today, even though we have something better.

>>9391254
Except you're incorrect and the Oxford comma is better by every margin

>>9390100
any examples? i can't think of any

>>9388522 (OP)
you know only plebs write like this

the correct way is :
A, B, C
not
A, B, and C
nor
A, B and C

>>9391506
fuck off Hemingway no one likes you

Could this shitty language be any more pleb?

>>9391317
>To my mother, Mother Teresa, and the Pope
>the serial comma after Mother Teresa creates ambiguity about the writer's mother because it uses punctuation identical to that used for an appositive phrase, leaving it unclear whether this is a list of three entities (1, my mother; 2, Mother Teresa; and 3, the Pope) or of only two entities (1, my mother, who is Mother Teresa; and 2, the Pope). Without a serial comma, the above dedication would read: To my mother, Mother Teresa and the Pope, a phrase ambiguous only if the reader accepts the interpretation my mother, who is both Mother Teresa and the Pope.
Why do people have to lie and pretend the oxford comma has no ambiguities?

>>9388542
good post

>>9388522
>Pointless argument over grammatical ambiguities
Either you are intelligent to infer the author's contextual meaning or you aren't. No amount of commas or lack thereof will change this.
>Cormac McCarthy
>Charles Dickens
If you can't figure out both these styles then you don't belong studying literature. If you think either is superior and not just a different way to tell a compelling story then you're trash.

>>9390080
I know this may be hard to swallow, but you acually can do this. The comma key doesn't spontaneously stick if you try to use the Oxford comma when you normally don't, and, less facetiously, it does nothing to damage your integrity.

>>9390555
We thinking a funk band or...?

>>9388522
I always used that in my native language, didn't even knew it had a name.

>>9388542
>I like when proles see a thing
>proceeds to rant about how he hates thing

>>9392997
That's actually interesting. I've never seen an example like that, which I think is a victory for the oxford comma. Nevertheless, my proposal:

>To my mother; Mother Teresa; and the Pope.

I defy anyone to find an ambiguous case of the Oxford comma once list delineators are replaced by semicolons. This strikes me as still being in the spirit of the Oxford comma and so its victories are the comma's victories.

>>9391617
people like you are the reason i lurk /lit/

sugoii anon kun

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>>9393734
>oxford semicolon

Is this really a huge controversy? It seems that technical/political writing should aim for utmost clarity, so you should use a comma if it will improve clarity.

Just use the Oxford comma