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The Oxford comma: a comment Sep. 20th, 2011 @ 11:20 am
Language Log made a post about the Oxford (or serial) comma, which required comment-locking almost immediately, it seems. Because this is an issue of contention.

My own take: When I was a child, within the first couple of years of learning to read, I had a passionate, passionate hate of the appearance of a comma preceding the word "and". I don't remember why, precisely, but I remember ranting about it to my somewhat amused mother.

Then, for a period of some years, it left the realm of things I was actively caring about, and I didn't think consciously about it until I noticed that I had become a consistent user of the Oxford comma, and mildly irked by its absence where I felt it was needed.

I think it is for this reason that I have a tendency to think of the inability to appreciate the Oxford comma as being somewhat childish.
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