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I cannot see a way that those sentences do not both mean the same (nonsensical) thing involving strippers, JFK and Stalin. I think that your analysis in [] is

• kergonath 3y ago
  > I cannot see a way that those sentences do not both mean the same (nonsensical) thing involving strippers, JFK and Stalin. This specific example is nonsensical to demonstrate the possible confusion, but this sort of confusion is really common. > I think that your analysis in [] is wrong. Your second example says two named items but it still has three - strippers, JFK and Stalin. No, in the second example, JFK and Stalin are two instances of strippers. So there are three nouns, but only two people.
• alistairSH 3y ago
  In the sentence with ann Oxford comma, there are a group of strippers, plus two men. In the sentence without, there are two strippers, the first named JFK, the second named Stalin. Here’s a drawing to help… http://helveticka.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/oxfordcomma1.jpg http://helveticka.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/oxford...