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Oxford comma dropped by University of Oxford PR style guide →

Are you outraged? Elated? Meh?

Ed. note: The PR/web department of the University dropped the comma, not the Oxford University Press.

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   NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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   GOOD RIDDANCE.

6. jaygabler reblogged this from motherjones and added:

   FUCK THAT SHIT

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    Hahahahahah.

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12. obkb reblogged this from elisevc and added:

    I still use the Oxford comma pretty regularly, and so I’m somewhat attached to it. But as a linguistics major, I think...

13. l-ideefixe reblogged this from motherjones and added:

    As an avid and frequent use of the oxford comma, I am extremely distraught.

14. elisevc reblogged this from motherjones and added:

    SO OUTRAGED. This was...worst thing to happen during an otherwise stellar past few days...

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    Oxford comma: forever, ever, and ever.

17. elisabeth reblogged this from mediamediamedia and added:

    yep, stickin’ with it.

18. victorieous reblogged this from motherjones and added:

    ok. I am shocked, outraged, and betrayed.

19. mesarateresa said: ELATED! die Oxford comma die
20. stelladaniella reblogged this from motherjones and added:

    Outrage!

21. pushcametoshove reblogged this from don-julian and added:

    Pissed. I give a fuck about an Oxford comma.

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    BASTARDS!!!!

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29. darlene reblogged this from cubicmetaphysics and added:

    I’m a huge grammar nerd. Why did I not know what that comma is called?

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33. jackeesad reblogged this from cubicmetaphysics and added:

    I LOVE THE OXFORD COMMA AND AM ANGRY ABOUT THIS

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35. jasonlucasphotography said: Outraged. Not really, but the serial comma does add clarity in many situations, and there is no situation in which dropping it clarifies things. “I’d like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God” etc.
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38. kristellys reblogged this from motherjones and added:

    Well, I use it. Cuz I liked it. Cuz it made sentences visually better for me. Being a visual person, I don’t wanna let...

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    Well there’s the problem....vagueness a lack...comma creates...

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    NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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49. foulmouthedliberty reblogged this from motherjones and added:

    comma has been in my writing arsenal pretty much since I learned WTF a comma was for.

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