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by no-name-here 3mo ago
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> "Celebrating Ohio's and America's 250th birthday"
> Ohio is 223 years old
You might have misread the text? I see something different in the “Celebrating Ohio and America’s 250th birthday”, which I read as celebrating:
1. Ohio overall
2. America’s 250th
- Brian_K_White 3mo agoWithout the Oxford comma, it was the most reasonable way to read it.
- pastel8739 3mo agoYou would never put an Oxford comma in a list of two items
- therealpygon 3mo agoExactly. If someone says, “I’m running to the grocery and McDonald’s drive-thru,” no one assumes they are sharing a drive-thru…
- Freedom2 3mo agoPedantic HNers might...
- Henchman21 3mo agoFor real there is no single collection of online pedantry more pedantic than HN.
- embedding-shape 3mo agoActually, before HN there was Usenet which I assure you, as I know everything, was much more pedantic than HN ever was.
- Henchman21 3mo agoTo my memory they are very similar amounts of pedantry. Not sure to how measure it tbh! Regardless, you're making a solid point. :)
- QuantumGood 3mo agopage is now 404, this one still works https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i=Grand_Champion_Entry_-_Christin_Billips.png&cb=973a00a9 https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i...