Transcription:

With the Oxford comma:

we invited the strippers, jfk, and stalin.

[A picture showing a cartoon image of 4 people. JFK, Stalin, and 2 strippers.]

Without the Oxford comma:

we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin.

[A picture showing a cartoon image of 2 people. JFK and Stalin, both dressed in the same stripper outfits as the strippers in the above image.]

  • affiliate@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 months ago

    that kind of sentence structure always trips me up. we should start using parentheses for situations like this. or invent a new symbol, or something. we give commas too many jobs.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      You can reword the sentence to be clear.

      “We invited a stripper named JFK and Stalin.”

      or

      “We invited a stripper as well as JFK and Stalin.”

      Don’t necessary have to use a comma at all.