This site is a proud defender of the Oxford Comma.

Since that debate is apparently going on again in the parts of the online universe that isn’t currently drinking itself to death over the election, let me be clear:  I am adamantly, completely, and utterly committed to the Oxford Comma.  I was kind of a late convert to this, and perhaps – like many converts – I am a bit of a unreasonable fanatic on the subject.  Nonetheless: there it is.  You can have my Oxford Comma when you take it from my cold, dead, and grammatically correct body…

Moe Lane

PS: No, I don’t care if you’re wrong about this in the comments section.  Give me a break: it’s not this is an important topic, like politics, religion, or how Firefly was the greatest show ever…

7 thoughts on “This site is a proud defender of the Oxford Comma.”

  1. Heh. The Oxford Comma came up in Weird Al’s Word Crimes:
    But I don’t want your drama
    If you really wanna
    Leave out that Oxford Comma

  3. I really enjoyed Firefly. And I enjoy Castle. And it was about four seasons in on Castle when my wife commented that Nathan Fillion was the guy in both series. Yes, I’m a trained observer. I also was well into my mid-twenties when I realized the black keys on a piano repeated in a pattern. I’m lucky to have married a smart, observant, and super lady.

  5. I don’t remember being taught that it was the “Oxford comma” in elementary school, just that it was the correct way to punctuate when you are listing several items in a sentence. I’ve always just used it because it is incorrect to not use it.

    Besides, “We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin.” means something completely different than “We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin.”

  6. I’ve always liked this example:
     
    I dedicate this book to my parents, Jesus Christ and Ayn Rand.

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