who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?

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[Poll #1367134]
maybe a real entry sometime soon? WHO KNOWS.

EDIT: I FEEL SO ALONE. :( i hate them. when i was a reporter we didn't use them and now they look terribly clumsy to me.

Comments

[jkpolk.livejournal.com]

I tend to write like I speak. I pause there in speaking, so the comma is appropriate to me.

[novelized.livejournal.com]

always! omg, it drives me nuts when there's not.

[snarkyrainbow.livejournal.com]

why are your polls so jacked up looking?

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

I love it so much, it's it's in my profile.

[peridium.livejournal.com]

Sorry! :( I even work on a newspaper where I regularly cross out Oxford commas, but I always use them in my personal stuff.

[dekolette.livejournal.com]

About the poll situation click :)

[barrelofthegun.livejournal.com]

When I took communications I was told you had to use them, so now I'm just used to that and can't write any other way.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kittenheels/]

You're not totally alone. I think they look clumsy, but that's how I was originally taught and old habits die hard. XD

[gossips.livejournal.com]

you are not alone, i'm not fond of them as well! in portuguese they don't look very good so i transfer that to writing in english as well.

[quarterturn.livejournal.com]

I hate how they look, but I was taught to use them, so I catch myself falling back on old habits if I'm not paying attention. :(

[cinandtonic.livejournal.com]

I remember learning not to have a comma there and it kind of slightly bugs me when I see it lol

[circlesanthem.livejournal.com]

I HATE THEMMMMM.

[tiggz.livejournal.com]

i think they look stoooopid.

[tirtzah.livejournal.com]

Uh I grew up in Canada, then moved to the US around age 11. I have a tendency to do it either way. o_O I still spell colour with a u, though.

[squeegman.livejournal.com]

I HATE THE OXFORD COMMA!

[likespring.livejournal.com]

THE OXFORD COMMA IS IMPORTANT. HATE HOW IT LOOKS ALL YOU WANT, BUT IT CAN CHANGE THE MEANING OF A SENTENCE AND THUS I WILL CONTINUE TO USE IT.

Newspapers and such have a lot of guidelines that aren't used in regular writing.

[wearemany.livejournal.com]

there was no click box for "no fuck given about an oxford comma," but that is actually my vote.

[themightybee.livejournal.com]

Unless whatever is following the conjunction can work as a sentence on its own I find the use of a comma pointless.

[fluffers.livejournal.com]

There isn't a 'sometimes' option! I use it when it makes the sentence clearer. I'm sure it's worse to use it sometimes than to just pick a side, LOL. But I can't help it!

[faeries-wing919.livejournal.com]

I remember how we weren't supposed to use them in journalism to save layout space and it freaked me out. I tend to go comma crazy anyway, so I like them. :)

[aloverestrained.livejournal.com]

I, love, commas.

ALSO, I LOVE YOU!

[thegirliscrazy.livejournal.com]

not gonna lie, it would take a crowbar to pry me away from my oxford commas. i think it's b/c when i was in elementary school we were taught to use them, but then when i got older all of a sudden there was this rule change and they weren't necessary anymore. that just seemed wrong to me so i refused to let them go. if it had been the other way around and i had been taught not to use them, i bet seeing someone use them would look wrong to me. i often do things like this though: "we went to the store, the salon, around the corner, etc." no ands or oxford commas, just a random etc. at the end. pretty much avoids the whole thing but i have a feeling it is technically not proper.

i have bigger grammar battles to fight within myself though, like conquering my addiction to ellipses. and semi-colons; i use those a lot too. (c wut i did there? lol.) problem is when i lay off the semi-colons i tend to replace them with a comma; i know it's incorrect but i do it anyway and i don't know why. it irks me to see it done too much, yet i only add to the problem. oh, and starting too many sentences with 'and,' when it should only be used as occasional emphasis. i should also lay off the fragments too, but 95% of the writing i do these days is just blogging or posting comments so proper grammar, punctuation, capitalization, ETC. (jeebus help me) tends to fall by the wayside. (i think i miss the days when i used to care.)

[faith21.livejournal.com]

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