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Ungabhunga
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Registered: 2008-8-7 11:25:39
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Oxford comma
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Oxford coma is closer to the mark.
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AkagiyamaMissile
Title: Lord of the Lactose Intolerant
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Registered: 2003-4-22 07:39:44
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Stalin looks hot in tassle pasties.
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Arc_DT
Title: Mithan said I am smart
Posts: 363
Registered: 2002-5-28 08:25:51
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Eradiani posted:
To be proper grammar the way that these Oxford people are reading the sentence it should be "We invited the strippers: JFK and Stalin."
So technically they are being snooty about grammar and not following proper grammar to make the non-oxford comma users look bad /shrug
No. It's rarely followed, but if you're going to be persnickety, I'm afraid that what precedes and what follows a colon must both be complete sentences. "JFK and Stalin" is merely a noun phrase. Noun complements *may* be offset by dashes instead of commas, but the comma is the standard method of doing so. It is therefore entirely proper to read this sentence without the Oxford comma as a direct object with a noun complement instead of a list.
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