The Oxford comma is a comma used after the second to last item in a list of three or more items.
Why is the Oxford comma necessary?
WITHOUT OXFORD COMMA: "I love my parents, Ronald McDonald and Swiss cheese."
Did Ronald McDonald and Swiss cheese birth a child? Clearly atheistic liberals who believe that women can become men, humans evolved from apes, and Taylor Swift is a good role model clearly believe enough nonsensical hocus pocus to find such a scenario possible.
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McDonald's 'Tastes of the World' range. I was in the Maccy D's in Scarborough yesterday (GMT) and saw on one of their display screens the Jamaican Jerk Chicken sandwich. It's therefore possible that they could have - as part of their 'Signature' range - a burger with Swiss cheese.
Someone's a jerk to use punctuation as the worst non-sequitur imaginable.
Why the jump from a grammar discussion to politics and religion?
I'm an atheistic socialist.
Btw, why do you love Ronald McDonald? He's a capitalist clown invented to make kids eat more fattening food...
Really, is this dude just fucking with everybody? I even followed the link, and even weirder is this is a wiki page. Dude just created it a couple months ago, so . . . I don't know, I'm more confused the more I think about it.
I don't know why anyone would do this but it's obvious to me that the whole site has been created with the purpose of being quoted on FSTDT. We should henceforth ignore it.
Anyone who thinks I may be wrong should try the entry for 'vagina'. That ought to convince you.
If you really wanna
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Wha- bu- how- ...I am confused, how does that first topic possibly lead to that second one? I mean, yeah, he's an crazy fundie, but still. You'd think even they would have some sort of reason in their randomness...
BTW, I personally am an advocate for the oxford comma myself and try to use it whenever I can.
You were doing just fine until the "atheistic liberals" and Taylor Swift talk.
clearly believe enough nonsensical hocus pocus
Said by someone who believes a religion about a talking snake, magic fruit, guys coming back to life, and a magic all-powerful being who simultaneously loves everyone but yet condemns them to an eternity of torture.
@Citizen Justin
Anyone who thinks I may be wrong should try the entry for 'vagina'. That ought to convince you.
Just read it, and yes, it does seem way too Poe-ish to be real. It's not even "sex is evil and I am horny," It's totally "sex is evil." It's either a massive Poe or the person who wrote it is so far in the closet he's finding old polyester leisure suits and platform shoes.
@Citizen Justin
I read the vagina entry.
Steven R. once again. Starts out nuts. Gets crazier from there.
I can't say for the site, but this user most definitely it fucking with everyone.
"The Oxford comma is a comma used after the second to last item in a list of three or more items.
Why is the Oxford comma necessary?"
Yeah, OK, I can get behind that. Proper punctuation is important.
"Clearly atheistic liberals who believe that women can become men, humans evolved from apes, and Taylor Swift is a good role model clearly believe enough nonsensical hocus pocus to find such a scenario possible."
And BOOOOM, the argument train jumps the rails and heads off at full steam into Non Sequitur County, Crazyland....
Regards & all,
Thomas L. Nielsen
And only illiterates need a comma to help them comprehend the difference between "I love my parents, Ronald McDonald and Swiss cheese" and "I love my parents and Ronald McDonald and Swiss cheese."
@Thinking Allowed
Or more properly, "We invited the strippers JFK and Stalin." No comma is used between an adjective and the first noun when the adjective is modifying a list of nouns. The example is based upon the fact that "strippers" can be a noun or an adjective. In the sentence "We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin" the use of "strippers" is as the first noun in a list of nouns. In the sentence "We invited the strippers JFK and Stalin" it's an adjective modifying both JFK and Stalin.
So the Oxford comma really doesn't matter. What matters is if there is a comma after "strippers."
@Alencon
In the sentence "We invited the strippers JFK and Stalin" it's an adjective modifying both JFK and Stalin.
Hmm, and when it's "We invited the overpaid strippers JFK and Stalin"? "Strippers" is hardly an adjective there. If it really were in "We invited the strippers JFK and Stalin", one should be able to separate the two in my example with a comma, such as in "The hungry, barking dogs bit the lying politician" (where "lying politician" is a tautology and the poor dogs may have contracted rabies). But "We invited the overpaid, strippers JFK and Stalin" doesn't work. ;-) "Strippers" is an apposition.
Here's more from this loony site:
Fundies Say the Darndest Things (FSTDT) is a liberal mockery website that is a haven for apostasy, feminism, heresy, homosexual behavior, and the lust of the flesh. The site engages in demonic glorification, gloating, arrogance, pride, and otherwise reprehensible behavior. Unsavory comments allude to desiring carnal relationships, and they have a love affair for Darwinism and they tolerate Taylor Swift the evil harlot succubus. There is no substance on the site, no research, no biblical values, and no other redeeming qualities whatsoever.
This website plagiarizes and ridicules content produced by SimplyChristian. They also vandalize our site to include liberal propaganda.
@Don
What, is David Stewart writing for them too?
@ 2173545
"Here's more from this loony site:
Fundies Say the Darndest Things (FSTDT) is [snip] a haven for apostasy, feminism, heresy, homosexual behavior, and the lust of the flesh."
Well, duh! Why does he think I come here?
Regards & all,
Thomas L. Nielsen
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I do confess that I did learn a bit about how Oxford Commas work and how it's important. Stupid Person inadvertently imparted something useful among the bigoted nonsense. Remove the second bit and it's a nice lesson in punctuation.
Frankly; Weird Al's was more fun....image
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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