I see no counterargument
>>217752505I don't get it. You're retarded
the thing about literary and grammatical rules is that nobody who's actually a good writer gives a single fuck about them
>>217752543That's untrue. Proper punctuation is essential to a sound prosody.
I had eggs, toast, orange juice.
Having kefir right now
>>217752599>I had eggs, toast, orange juice.
>>217752537Without the oxford comma, a severely autistic person without the ability to infer meaning from context might interpret the seocnd half of the sentence as a clause which languages with a proper case system would use the vocative for.
>>217752599You're an orange juice
>>217752659Your country is autistic
>>217752505In italian it's a rule, you dont put a comma before and because and is supposed to close the list
>>217752691Yet I was able to derive the sentence's meaning without any problems, whether the oxford comma was present or not. Curious, isn't it?!
>>217752505What? Is it not a rule anymore or something? I use it because commas are for pauses and I'd pause before orange juice when speaking out loud.
>>217752505kek
>>217752659It had to be a German to make this comment.
>>217752505>>217752543the oxford comma only used by homosexuals, women and minorities.
>>217752505I'm proud of you!
>>217752505But I did have breakfast...
>>217752956There is no predicative verb in your sentence and the picture shows a minority woman who opposes the oxford comma, so I'm going to have to assume you're either trolling or that you belong to one of the listed groups, none of which are capable of applying grammatical rules correctly. Given that most of the idiotic changes to the English language that occurred in the past few decades originated in either the gay community or amongst ethnic youths, I'm going to call bullshit on your claim.
>>217753163>let me tell you about your language.this is why we kicked your ass in back to back world wars, stole your homes to give to the jews and broke your country in half
>>217752543Native speakers have an intuitive "feel" for the sentence, even if they can't articulate why it's grammatically correct.Take an american, ask him what a perfect participle is, and he wouldn't know, but he most likely wouldn't use it improperly.For example, >Having learned the truth about her husband, he was asked to return homevs.>Having learned the truth, she apologized to her daughterOne uses a perfect participle improperly to create a dangling modifier, making the subject of the sentence unclear. A more subtle example,>Having reviewed the evidence, the verdict was announced the next morningvs>Having reviewed the evidence, the jury announced the verdict the next morning.Native speakers intuitively correct it in their head before writing it. Oxford comma is a more tolerable mistake for natives, because their mind makes sense of it without it.
>>217753217Your great grandparents did, 3 generations ago, when your entire population hadn't been muttified yet
>>217753760Let's think about it on a more philosophical level. Usage of language dictates the grammar, so you're putting the cart before the horse if you learn grammar when you're fluent in a language. The native makes up the rules as he goes along.
>>217752956There's a handful of situations where it's truly ambiguous.>After the ceremony, the author thanked her editors, Michael Johnson and Sarah Lee, for their patience during the revision process.>After the ceremony, the author thanked her editors, Michael Johnson, and Sarah Lee, for their patience during the revision process.It's just keeping up the practice so that you don't suddenly swap between using it and not.
>>217752543yea they dgaf, they just use what makes the most sense. and in this case it's the oxford comma.
