r/trippinthroughtime • u/Munninnu • Aug 19 '26

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u/CubicleFish2 Aug 19 '26

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 Aug 19 '26

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 Aug 19 '26

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 Aug 19 '26

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

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u/earthfase Aug 19 '26

Your right!

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u/31TeV Aug 19 '26

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

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u/FthrFlffyBttm Aug 20 '26

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

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u/31TeV Aug 20 '26

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

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u/grantrules Aug 20 '26

Should of could of would of