Space Facts@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 hours agoWhat's funny here?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1598arrow-down116
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minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·16 hours agoThe Oxford comma is when you have a list of things that have basically one more comma than usual, following the penultimate member of the list. Oxford: Red, green, and blue. Standard: Red, green and blue. … The thing that is missing from the OP sentence that dramatically alters its meaning is the word ‘with’, not a comma.
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agocomma could fix it i miss eating out, my friends then it is a plea to a group
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours ago… that would substantially change the meaning, away from what the OP themself indicated they meant to convey. That also would not be a usage of the Oxford comma, as that comma would be doing a different grammatical job than deliniating items in a list. It would be deliniating a vocative phrase. Yes, it does… make it into a workable sentence … but it would not be an Oxford comma.
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 hours agosure but it works for the sake of the oxford comma ‘joke’ bit of a dead horse but people love it
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI genuienly do not understand what you mean.
The Oxford comma is when you have a list of things that have basically one more comma than usual, following the penultimate member of the list.
Oxford: Red, green, and blue.
Standard: Red, green and blue.
… The thing that is missing from the OP sentence that dramatically alters its meaning is the word ‘with’, not a comma.
comma could fix it
i miss eating out, my friends
then it is a plea to a group
… that would substantially change the meaning, away from what the OP themself indicated they meant to convey.
That also would not be a usage of the Oxford comma, as that comma would be doing a different grammatical job than deliniating items in a list.
It would be deliniating a vocative phrase.
Yes, it does… make it into a workable sentence … but it would not be an Oxford comma.
sure but it works for the sake of the oxford comma ‘joke’
bit of a dead horse but people love it
I genuienly do not understand what you mean.