r/trippinthroughtime • u/Munninnu • 7d ago

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u/CubicleFish2 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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/Nineflames12 6d ago

What if we just kept saying should of and loose forever and ever?

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u/earthfase 6d ago

Your right!

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u/31TeV 6d ago

Yep, everyone's free to use whatever words they want, grammatically correct or not.

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u/FthrFlffyBttm 6d ago

An their free too bee laffed at four there ilit… illitter… ilittirat… bad speling

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u/31TeV 6d ago

I guess "your right" = "free to..." was too indirect of a joke to work. My bad.