Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

[KillerGremlin]

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...i/Serial_comma

The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma, and sometimes referred to as the series comma) is the comma used immediately before a coordinating conjunction (usually and or or, and sometimes nor) preceding the final item in a list of three or more items. For example, a list of three countries can be punctuated as either "Portugal, Spain, and France" (with the serial comma) or as "Portugal, Spain and France" (without the serial comma).

The Times once published an unintentionally humorous description of a Peter Ustinov documentary, noting that "highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector". This would still be ambiguous if a serial comma were added, as Mandela could then be mistaken for a demigod, although he would be precluded from being a dildo collector.

[Teuthida]

I'm a big fan of the serial comma. Feel naked without it.

[Fox 6]

I love me the Grammer and that shit yo!

[Typhoid]

The Oxford Comma is a very important part of sentence structure.

Without it, how am I supposed to know if you have 30lbs of grain and 30lbs of coal - or 30lbs of grain and some coal. How. Riddle me that, Vampire Weekend.

[Vampyr]

I don't like it. The pause feels really awkward. I don't use it and I haven't seen anyone use it since some text books in elementary school.

[manasecret]

Ditto Teuthy, but only when listing three items, not two, unless to remove ambiguity.