Topic: I actually hate people who don't use the Oxford Comma.

Anonymous A started this discussion 1 year ago #119,272

They are uneducated, stupid, and wrong.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #1,308,112

Your parents were uneducated, stupid, toothless hillbillies.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,308,139

wtf is an oxford comma?

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 13 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,308,216

@previous (C)
It is a comma placed at the end of a list before "and [final item]". It is correct because it disambiguates between singular and composite list items.

Consider, for example, a list of flavour options in a menu: "plain, spicy, sweet and sour". Since there is no comma before "and", this should definitely be interpreted as 3 options:
- plain
- spicy
- sweet & sour

If there were a comma before "and", this would definitely mean 4 options:
- slain
- spicy
- sweet
- sour

Minichan