I wish @Haymitch would have made the voting public. I waiting to see what SwoLy-D has to say. The Oxford group in this thread sound like a bunch of SwoLy-Ds.
Well, I'm an uncle to 20 of them, after all, and on software teams with them. Might have the most experience with millennials on the board. Oh, and it's cute seeing you play the insecure, forty-sumpin, "kids nowadays" mind game on yourself. You'll grow out of it, or you won't. Spoiler Oh, and I think you missed my millennial joke/point. Oh well
I sure hope I don't ever grow out of my ability to make or take a ****ing joke, you crazy youngster you.
yeah, your joke went waaaaayyy over my head, if there was one there. Anyhoot I did have a plan to my millennial joke/point about twitter and the comma. But I was probably being too geeky. Doesn't look like I'll be able to use my follow-up planned for had someone gotten serious with me.
I'm still figuring out this new fangled layout. Anywho the company I work for actually has a writing guide and they emphasize that we shouldn't use Oxford commas, and then later said don't use them unless they would clear up some ambiguity. But they always help to clear up ambiguity, I say! Unfortunately they only provided examples of not using the oxford comma and did not give examples of when we should use it. An email "from" a CFO this morning is what prompted this thread.
well just tell him or her about the Maine Oxford comma case that will cost that company millions in overtime costs
Is it the language with the most commas? Would prefer one with random amount of commas in random ways.
Can't find any information online, but it should definitely be in the top 5 or 10. Really wish English would emphasize the comma more, I always want to put more commas into sentences. The papers I write for University (in German) often end up filled with gigantic sentences that go beyond four or five lines, I love it (the guys that have to read the paper probably don't ).
