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Isn't there a good reason in this case: Beer, Drinking Water and Fish Beer, Drinking Water, and Fish
by WhompingWindows 8y ago
Isn't there a good reason in this case:
Beer, Drinking Water and Fish
Beer, Drinking Water, and Fish
- tzs 8y agoI meant that there isn't a good reason to argue about them, not that there isn't a good reason to use them. I'm arguing that if we deal with the true source of ambiguity when lists are used, the use of commas to offset appositive phrases, that eliminates that cases where including the Oxford comma introduces ambiguity, without removing the cases where omitting the Oxford comma causes ambiguity, and so there would then no longer be a good reason to argue against the Oxford comma.
- hammock 8y agoAssuming a good writer, then no, because if parallel construction was adhered to then there can only be one meaning of "drinking water "