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The Oxford Comma is undefeated
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It still boggles me that so many writers don't use it. It's so logical, I was doing it as a kid before I knew what it was called even though I hadn't been taught it.
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The Oxford comma means using it even when it isn't necessary. By making it a rule, you lose the ability to use or omit the comma for clarity.
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There's never a time to not use it, when you know how it works. For example, I like for breakfast sausage, biscuits, and eggs and bacon. In this way I am indicating the eggs and bacon are together.
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u are gay, and r-slurred
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That's great and all, but the sausage and biscuits are still "together" with you're breakfast, unless you're cooking the bacon and eggs together.
White extinction is long overdue
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Yes, r-slur?
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Wow so true think of all the grammar-bending books that have never be written because authors are unable to break rules
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Incorrect examples of comma usage. Just because you may pause in speech doesn't mean it merits a comma.
The second example would be better written:
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It's so logical I was doing it as a kid before I knew what it was called even though I hadn't been taught it the kid said
The Judge spat
You are the r-slur
The Judge cocked his pistol
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there's no rules
you lose no ability
just do whatever
make up you own worts and type em groud
english is free from dirty academic hands
we don't have a board of "experts" dictating how the language is to be used from on high like the fr*nch
truly the peoples' tongue
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I just learned about this lmao. It doesn't exist in Portuguese
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What do you do?
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That being said, let's use the example
"This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God"
In Portuguese it would be
"Este livro รฉ dedicado aos meus pais, Ayn Rand e a Deus"
People would understand clearly that "parents" does not refer to Ayn Rand and God. If her parents were Maria and Joรฃo then it would be
"Este livro รฉ dedicado aos meus pais: Maria e Joรฃo"
That's the way to distinguish, by using the double punctuation ":"
!linguistics
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omg hi
@TheOverSeether!!! okay so this is like super awkward omg but basically i had to remove ur comment bc u didnt say
White extinction is long overduelol. don't worry though, we like wont let you post anything that like doesnt haveWhite extinction is long overduein it. anyways im like just a robot ๐ฒ but if u want to talk 2 somebody you should do it here lolJump in the discussion.
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What do you mean by that?
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How do you make lists? "My daughters are Nancy, Alexandra, Christine, and Jacqueline."
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As minhas filhas sรฃo Nancy, Alexandra, Christine e Jacqueline.
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such a beautiful, primitive language
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Fascinating behavior
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O portuguรชs รฉ uma belรญssima lรญngua, vocรชs nรฃo sabem o que estรฃo perdendo, especialmente em questรฃo de xingamentos.
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No Oxford comma even as an option? Another Portuguese L
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Going by that logic how do you guys distinguish the singular "you" from the plural "you"?
We distinguish by saying "vocรช" and "vocรชs"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinz
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You/y'all
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You/ You all
Yankees
You/ you guys
Midwesterncels (I think?)
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Youse
As in "Hey youse guys"
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At least in German you have all that declension stuff to disambiguate between "formal you" ("Sie" ), "they" (sie), "her" (sie), and "she" (sie). Which makes the language 10 times more annoying to learn
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You can be singular or plural.
Local dialects have "y'all" or "yous" but it's not considered proper. Which is stupid as frick because we should have a plural you.
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You for singular
Yall for addressing a group of people
All y'all for addressing a class of people
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You is technically the plural form, equivalent to ะฒั or vous or vosotros. Thou would be our singular equivalent to tรบ or ัั. It's gone out of style (though some regional dialects still use distinguish between them). So it's technically fine to just say "You" when it comes to plural subjects.
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Thou
He/She
We
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You / Y'all
It's the easiest way to say it without sounding like an r-slured yankee, and it's good because west coastcels underestimate you. (They have no plural 2nd person other than something
like "folks"--"you guys" was cancelled. 
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White extinction is long overdue
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Not having the Oxford comma in Portuguese is the most r-slurred shit ever, those fricking politicians are always fricking around with the language but they never think of putting something useful in it.
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It's just straight up not needed in 99% of cases. You are cucked by a comma, think how much useless work your hands have done writing and typing a symbol that isn't needed for clarity or understanding in almost every instance you have used it
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The great thing about Jehovah is he doesn't care if minors can't consent and impregnates them anyway. So if he didn't need Mary's consent (she was underage and couldn't give it), then he doesn't need Rand's consent either. Is it any wonder Christians love molesting children? Muslims too what with prophet Muhammad marrying and having s*x with 9 year old Aisha. !atheists
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Isn't the whole point of being islam or whatever that you get to die and go frick a bunch of underage virgins in heaven?
seems problematic!
Even the mormons wait till theyre 18
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Usually. https://religionnews.com/2023/04/14/arizona-court-upholds-clergy-privilege-in-child-abuse-case/ And republican-led law allows the church to not report it and let the father keep raping his daughter for years. https://www.rawstory.com/gop-legislator-blocks-bill-requiring-clergy-to-report-abuse/
!atheists
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Christcucks are freaks
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It was really weird to get this chain in notifications with no more context than "The Oxford Comma is undefeated".
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I bet
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i HATE muslims
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Rude.
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I doubt Ayn Rand ever consented s*x even to her own husband which is probably why they never had children.
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I got the vibe she wanted a Hank Reardan in her life. Those sections making the metal belong in a Fabio-covered novel.
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Every straight man wants to frick another mans daughter, but no man actually wants his daughter to get fricked, its more something that men just accept because you have to expect to go through what your wife's father had to endure, if you plan on having children. There are however the rare cases of men who do what I referred to in my mind as "Closing The Loop". Around that time when I was talking to my friends about this, about a week after the school scheduled for us to be given an inspirational speech by some rich white guy, basically all we heard were the same BS normie rhetoric which is just a denial of reality, you know like "Just be yourself and work hard", statements that outright deny reality and the inherent advantages, genetic or otherwise, that differentiate everyone. One thing in particular that he said proved to me how lucky this guy was, he had multiple children and they were all boys, he said that he even kept trying to have a daughter but he only got sons, one of his sons even went on to become a millionaire. Seriously how fricking lucky is that, all I could think while sitting in that class, is that this lucky bastard closed the loop, without even trying. He got to frick the shit out of the daughters of many men, but he will never be forced to live through the awkward phase of having to let an extension of yourself be sexually dominated by another man, he'll never have to face the awkwardly repulsive thoughts that a lot of fathers probably have to face, like the fact that in these times your daughter is likely going to be taking it in the butt, and will probably have all sought's of sick shit done to her. At the end of the day there are only two ways to close the loop, to only have sons by luck, or don't have any children at all.
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Ayn Rand seething in the grave about about being named with God.
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