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Do you use Oxford commas?

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Postby marianas on Mon May 19, 2008 8:29 pm

The Oxford Comma
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Postby Carrots on Mon May 19, 2008 10:54 pm

Extremely. It just looks wrong without it!
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Postby Trinity on Mon May 19, 2008 11:01 pm

Seeing as Hawkins taught me about commas. -hugs Hawkins- She told me to use the Oxford comma. So whenever I can remember I do use the Oxford comma. :)
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Postby The Bee on Mon May 19, 2008 11:19 pm

meh, I use it sometimes. There's really no rhyme or reason to how I use it. Just whatever SOUNDS best.
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Postby DarkWaltz on Tue May 20, 2008 2:58 am

I always use it. It can help avoid confusion if you have a list of things that have ands within them, i.e. The three dishes were chicken, tomato and pesto, and onion. That way you know tomato and pesto is one thing and it's not pesto and onion. :)
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Postby Carrots on Tue May 20, 2008 3:02 am

Which you'd know if you had any good tastes in sauces. Blech.
I just use it cause it looks cooler and makes my life easier.
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Postby The Bee on Tue May 20, 2008 3:13 am

uh-huh. sure. you just think it does.
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Postby Shaye on Tue May 20, 2008 3:30 am

Sure.

But I'm a bit hyphen user.

Like - well, this - here.
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Postby The Bee on Tue May 20, 2008 9:13 pm

I do that all the time (but sometimes I think it looks too redundant so I add in some parenthesis here and there)!
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Postby Hawkins on Wed May 21, 2008 1:59 am

I grew up in the olden days when we were still taught to pronounce the 'wh' sound, so of course they taught us the Oxford comma. XD Okay, they never really taught us that (probably because they were too busy teaching us that 'ayah' and 'lobstah' were not words) but you get what I'm saying...well, that'd be a first...
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Postby pommie on Wed May 21, 2008 12:04 pm

Yes, of course. It makes sense really. Gets confusing otherwise. :D
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Postby The Bee on Wed May 21, 2008 10:17 pm

Only sometimes. The article on wiki has some pretty good examples as to when it makes things confusing... I think. The article was a little confusing...
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Postby Shaye on Thu May 22, 2008 6:35 am

Ha!

I love wikipedia.

I can't wait till it becomes a verb. Like "I dunno. Wiki it."

Like "Google it."

It'll happen.
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Postby marianas on Thu May 22, 2008 1:57 pm

I'm sure it happens already.

I'n my house, imdb is a verb ("what have I seen him in?" "I don't know; imdb him.")
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Postby Carrots on Thu May 22, 2008 8:17 pm

We use it as a verb here all the time.
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