thrawn@beehaw.org to Chat@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoWhat petty hill will you die on?message-squaremessage-square451fedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1171arrow-down1message-squareWhat petty hill will you die on?thrawn@beehaw.org to Chat@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square451fedilinkfile-text
For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.
minus-squareMudMan@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYeah, which is exactly why you don’t need one to finish lists. It makes it sound like you forgot the last thing. “Peaches, pears… eh… and apples”.
minus-squareRedditExodus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIn the case of the Oxford comma it’s more to distinguish between items in a list that are combined by the “and” or items in a list that are separate items. It’s not used to indicate a pause in this scenario.
Yeah, which is exactly why you don’t need one to finish lists. It makes it sound like you forgot the last thing. “Peaches, pears… eh… and apples”.
In the case of the Oxford comma it’s more to distinguish between items in a list that are combined by the “and” or items in a list that are separate items. It’s not used to indicate a pause in this scenario.