Ah yes. The hotly debated Oxford Comma. I'm a fan myself, but it seems to be out of fashion these days.
for serious. i'd take pepperoni and mushroom over bacon and mushroom any day. on a pizza that is. in a marsala? well that's a comma of a different color...
*....I've seen those English dramas too, they're cruel*
I actually think its redundant and don't use it. I don't find it offensive or unusual though, to each their own.
- With the Oxford comma: We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin.
Without the Oxford comma: We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin.
The colon is also correct.
In the case of the strippers, JFK and Stalin, "strippers" and "JFK and Stalin" are called nouns in apposition. The second noun - the thing named by the first noun - is typically surrounded by commas. You would say, for example, My English teachers, Ms Dabacle and Mr. Frost, taught me about semi-colons. Similarly, the strippers, JFK and Stalin, delighted the Poles. Even so, you can opt for the colon.
In the example above, a colon would interrupt the flow of the sentence. Luckily, if you do not like two commas in a sentence, rewrite and edit. You can say "JFK and Stalin were strippers in Warsaw. They frequently performed at the Sin Gentleman's Club, Warsaw's best lap dancing venue, much to the delight of the Poles."
That was a wonderful example Lil I now have seen the light.
Stalin died in 1953 when JFK was in his first year in the Senate, but you never know. JFK and Stalin might be names used by performers in a cross-dressing, transgender strip club in Berlin..
Thank you for the link :) I usually use the Comma in my official writing, but here is quite different.
Thanks again
- but here is quite different.
Yeah, I guess writing for this platform is quite different than a formal language school might teach. Although shouldn't they strive to be the same thing?
I've spent some time in Europe and at one point even lived with a German family. They loved this little anecdote about the language school up the street. How proud the school was of their academic heritage! And gosh, how they managed to sustain pure linguistic lines. Just incredible! Thing is, all the students came out speaking 200 year old German. People loved it! It was beautiful to hear. But no one talks that way any longer, and the students were politely patted on the back as general oddities of a different time. I wondered if the school was doing a service or a disservice to the students?