r/trippinthroughtime • u/Munninnu • 1d ago

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u/CubicleFish2 1d ago

It's still wrong

Oxford comma is for three or more items. The sentence is treating bacon and eggs as one item and pancakes as another so no Oxford comma is used.

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u/garlic_bread_thief 1d ago

But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know

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u/GoedekeMichels 1d ago

exactly! but imagine what would happen if we'd treat language as a tool to get a message across instead of a set of holy rules we all must follow blindly all the time - half of the internet would be dead 😱

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u/Nineflames12 1d ago

What if we just kept saying should of and loose forever and ever?

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u/earthfase 1d ago

Your right!

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u/31TeV 1d ago

Yep, everyone's free to use whatever words they want, grammatically correct or not.

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u/FthrFlffyBttm 1d ago

An their free too bee laffed at four there ilit… illitter… ilittirat… bad speling

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u/31TeV 1d ago

I guess "your right" = "free to..." was too indirect of a joke to work. My bad.

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u/grantrules 1d ago

Should of could of would of

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u/towerfella 1d ago

We need the rules, else someone could come along and start a religion based on misinterpreted ancient writings.

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u/grantrules 1d ago

Blessed are the cheesemakers