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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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I just learned about this lmao. It doesn't exist in Portuguese
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What do you do?
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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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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"
!macacos
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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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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"
!burgers discuss
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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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I
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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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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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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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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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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