A comma!
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#oxfordcomma #comma@jd I always go out back to smoke my barefoot pets anyway.
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A comma! A comma! My kingdom for a comma.
#oxfordcomma #comma -
'smoking bare, foot, pets prohibited in building.'
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@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.
@maccruiskeen @jd my point is Oxford comma should be for preventing likely wrong interpretations, or where the consequences are severe, not merely possible ones
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@jacobwittrock @jd Outside it's fine, just not inside.
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#oxfordcomma #comma@jd They said what they said.
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#oxfordcomma #comma@jd "I'm smoking bare foot pets prohibited in this building." - Dracula Flow
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@jd
My pets walk bare foot. Thankfully they quit smoking several years ago.@alterelefant @jd now I am thinking about Yani Neko...
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We had a problem in Ludlow (UK) a few years ago. The council put up signs saying
"No parking enforcement in operation"
and then started ticketing people for parking. I think they ended up cancelling a lot of the tickets.
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A comma! A comma! My kingdom for a comma.
#oxfordcomma #comma@jd There's no building in progress there. Would be very different if it prohibited things inside the building

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@jd why is foot singular
@Recalcitrant @jd Maybe somebody went in wearing one shoe, sniggering "I don't have bare FEET"
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@maccruiskeen @jd my point is Oxford comma should be for preventing likely wrong interpretations, or where the consequences are severe, not merely possible ones
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A comma! A comma! My kingdom for a comma.
#oxfordcomma #comma@jd Put some shoes on, how hard is that?
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#oxfordcomma #comma@jd Dude I got some fluffy bare foot pets for ya. 30$ an 8th yo. lol
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#oxfordcomma #comma@jd
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A comma! A comma! My kingdom for a comma.
#oxfordcomma #comma@jd How do you know that's not what they mean? Huh? HUH?

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@jd Put some shoes on, how hard is that?
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A comma! A comma! My kingdom for a comma.
#oxfordcomma #commaMy pet would never!
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