O/T A Punctuation Quiz

O/T A Punctuation Quiz Jan 8, 2021 21:50:27 GMT

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Post by bluerisk on Jan 8, 2021 21:50:27 GMT

Jan 8, 2021 19:31:04 GMT NJtoTX said:

Jan 8, 2021 18:16:59 GMT Jokers_Wilde said:

6/7

I had never heard of an Oxford comma before - likely because I'm Canadian.

I plead ignorance on this. Is that an option for me?

Joker's Wilde

We have to use them in educational publishing.

They got these photos reversed somehow.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/946/431/014.png

A lack of an Oxford comma cost dairy $5 million.
www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/us/dairy-drivers-oxford-comma-case-settlement-trnd/index.html

We have no Oxford comma in the German language, because X,Y and Z is always a list of x, y, z. The "and" is merely indicating the end of the list.

And we would put no comma if we want to say the strippers JFK and Stalin. It's no list but the information who the strippers are.