A comma!

[pia_ranha@mastodon.social]

@jd I'm intrigued to meet these pets, this sounds like the adult version of all the animals I read about in children's books

[heinzenstein@f-ckendehoelle.de]

@jd
I like to smoke my bare foot pets outside wearing shoes

[kshernandez@me.dm]

@jd

[su_liam@mas.to]

@jd All of my pets are bare foot most of the time, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never smoked any of them.

[thorium@social.linux.pizza]

@jd Checkmate, my smoking fish doesn't even have a foot. He's obviously not an angel fish, especially since he hasn't figured out how to keep the cigar lit underwater. This makes him swear like a sailor.

[madness832@mstdn.party]

@jd Also "and/or" in the last location.

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@chris @jd As an editor, I've seen a lot of these kinds of mistakes. Yes, the person who wrote them missed it because you tend to automatically filter out the 'wrong meaning without even thinking about it. But 'unclear writing because people usually figure it out' is not really a substitute for clarity.

[agturcz@circumstances.run]

@jd I cannot find the screenshot, but someone has already put a picture of this sign, with the comment (quoted from memory): "I do not know him, but he must be the coolest bro in the area".

[devlinleathercraft@mastoart.social]

@jd I always go out back to smoke my barefoot pets anyway.

[jacobwittrock@techhub.social]

@jd @catsalad Please don’t smoke bare footed pets inside!

[gaiantheinvincible@mastodon.social]

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @jd

'smoking bare, foot, pets prohibited in building.'

[chris@mastodon.mihalis.net]

@maccruiskeen @jd my point is Oxford comma should be for preventing likely wrong interpretations, or where the consequences are severe, not merely possible ones

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@jacobwittrock @jd Outside it's fine, just not inside.

[vonxylofon@witter.cz]

@jd They said what they said.

[north@chaos.social]

@jd "I'm smoking bare foot pets prohibited in this building." - Dracula Flow

[madargon@is-a.cat]

@alterelefant @jd now I am thinking about Yani Neko...

[peachmcd@union.place]

@X31Andy @jd

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[globaltom@mstdn.ca]

@jd There's no building in progress there. Would be very different if it prohibited things inside the building

[sjjh@hachyderm.io]

@Recalcitrant @jd Maybe somebody went in wearing one shoe, sniggering "I don't have bare FEET"

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@chris @jd It's not just bad punctuation. One time I was in a supermarket and the shopping cart had a little sign on the child seat: "Do not leave child in cart. Do not leave in parking lot.' Like, I hop no one needs to be told not to leave their child in the parking lot.