Personalized 1-year anniversary tracksuit from work
Interesting point below. Oxford comma is clearly the way things should be done, though; not even just for ambiguity (which, according to lesserjoke, is only shifted), but for the fact that it is right and everything else is wrong.
Eh. I tend to use the Oxford comma myself, but there’s a possibility for ambiguity either way. Consider:
- We invited the stripper, JFK and Stalin.
- We invited the stripper, JFK, and Stalin.
Sentence 1, without an Oxford comma, is clearly about three individuals. Sentence 2, which uses an Oxford comma, is ambiguous between that reading and one in which JFK is a stripper.
Basically: by all means use whichever convention you like, but don’t act like it removes ambiguity from your writing. It merely shifts that ambiguity to different sentences.
As @MayorEmanuel once tweeted: “Tweedy’s being pissy because he doesn’t want to play any Black Eyed Peas songs. What the fuck? People love that shit.”
And seven months later, here we have Jeff Tweedy reciting the lyrics to “My Humps” at the book party.
Apologies for: shakiness, my guffawing, etc.
