The comma is the difference between the Type Ia and Type IIa sentence. Values differ greatly. Only buy sentences certified by a proper authority (Mr. Doll?).
Gentlemen, pleas'e. That really i's an Oxford comma, my 2003 S'tanGib s'ay's s'o. But the comma i's not the mos't important punctuation mark the'se days'. As'k anyone 30-40 year's old, the mos't important mark today i's the apo'strophe, which mu'st be us'ed before or after every s'. It's' not jus't for possessives' or contractions' any more.
Back when the Internet was just the internet and primarily academic, approximately twenty-five percent of bandwidth was consumed by the Oxford Comma debate (along with Intel/Motorola debate and approx 5% salty limericks, of all things). Like any English "civil war," the results are murky and still debated to this day, er, night.
I had a friend who (obviously) would be in full camo for bow season who would sometimes plant his deer stand near a walking trail. Every time a walker or jogger would happen by, he would make growling sounds as soon as they passed him. He said that not one victim would turn around, but every last one of them instantaneously picked up their pace LOL.
Italian mama says "comma here" Joe Biden says "comma on man" Admittedly I'm getting rather comma tose dwelling on this. (On a parenthetical note, I question if colon ial times weren't a period of greater grammatical =ity!) Anyways, that's where I'm @.
I actually do like parentheses but I still think a comma would take one out in a fair fight (pay per view, of course). And the salacious, silly apostrophe just hangs around making more things out of one thing. Oh, I could go on and on about apostrophe(')s.
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Bagels, lox, and capers?
Umm, getting hungry...
Ted, see what you innocently started?
Joe Biden says "comma on man"
Admittedly I'm getting rather comma tose dwelling on this. (On a parenthetical note, I question if colon ial times weren't a period of greater grammatical =ity!) Anyways, that's where I'm @.