Mignon Fogarty on Nostr: A friend who's still on Twitter just sent me this viral Oxford comma post "The Art of ...
A friend who's still on Twitter just sent me this viral Oxford comma post
"The Art of War," Amy Schumer's memoir and many other books are banned in US prisons."
It's actually an example of when an Oxford comma doesn't help. If you put a comma after "memoir," it could still be interpreted as an appositive saying that the book was Schumer's memoir.
That doesn't make for such a funny post, but it's a great example sentence for people like me who give talks about the Oxford comma!
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