This. Precisely this. I don’t care what people are telling you. They are wrong. Do not be wrong.
Via @GregStolze. We… differ… on some topics; but by God I’d join him on the barricades for this.
Tag: oxford comma
Own-tweet of the Day, I Find Your Lack Of Oxford Comma Disturbing edition.
1st Circuit Court strikes blow for Western Civilization, humanity itself, and the Oxford Comma.
This story is from March: but this is the first I’ve heard of it, it’s all that the title promises, and delivers as the feel-good story of the day.
In 2014, three truck drivers sued Oakhurst Dairy, seeking more than four years’ worth of overtime pay that they had been denied. Maine law requires workers to be paid 1.5 times their normal rate for each hour worked after 40 hours, but it carves out some exemptions.
Said exemptions are:
The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of:
(1) Agricultural produce;
(2) Meat and fish products; and
(3) Perishable foods.
As you might have guessed, the question here is: were there exemptions for packing for shipment AND for distribution, or was there AN exemption for packing for shipment and/or distribution? The plaintiffs argued for the latter, and the defendants argued for the former. The court ruled in favor of human decency and sanity by declaring that the lack of a Oxford Comma made things too unclear.
WHICH THE LACK OF THE COMMA DOES.
Via Facebook.
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…