Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, for one. Its decision in a Maine case concerning overtime pay hinges on the absence of an Oxford comma. Here’s the text of the decision.
Me, in a post about basic punctuation: “If you always put the [Oxford] comma in, you avoid problems with ambiguous or tricky sentences in which the comma’s absence might blur the meaning of your words.” Yep.
Thanks to the New Arthurian for passing on this news item.
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[The impertinent question that begins this post is the property of Vampire Weekend.]
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
An Oxford comma in the news
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