Comments on: Death to the Oxford Comma http://nealo.com/2011/09/28/death-to-the-oxford-comma/ a collection of editorial cartoons by neal obermeyer Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:30:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: neal http://nealo.com/2011/09/28/death-to-the-oxford-comma/comment-page-1/#comment-368846 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:30:49 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=3686#comment-368846 In reply to Jim.

No, because “JFK” is a nonrestrictive appositive, and therefore must be set off by commas. If that comma were unnecessary, then the initial pro-Oxford comma example would be incorrect as well. Both situations are dependent on the ambiguity created by placing an appositive within a series.

]]> By: Jim http://nealo.com/2011/09/28/death-to-the-oxford-comma/comment-page-1/#comment-368717 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:49:42 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=3686#comment-368717 The last picture is only accurate if you remove the comma after the word stripper. You might be right that there are examples where the Oxfod comma fails, but this isn’t one of them.

]]> By: Jacob http://nealo.com/2011/09/28/death-to-the-oxford-comma/comment-page-1/#comment-367458 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:22:28 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=3686#comment-367458 There are plenty of examples of sentences that are difficult (and some that impossible) to parse when the Oxford comma is dropped, causing readers to reread the sentence trying to make sense out of it, and at the least that is just bad writing.

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