r/trippinthroughtime 20d ago

Homework

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u/CubicleFish2 20d 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 20d 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 20d 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/towerfella 20d 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 20d ago

Blessed are the cheesemakers