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In the following sentence, the "Oxford" comma is the one after "milk". It is optional, do you use it?

"I need to buy eggs, milk, and bread."

I always use it, no matter what.

Yessir.  When I first saw it used the other way in grade school, I thought it was incorrect. Even today I still think the other way looks funny.

Quote from: Hippo on January 03, 2009, 01:44:04 AM
Yessir.  When I first saw it used the other way in grade school, I thought it was incorrect. Even today I still think the other way looks funny.

Agreed. Even though it's optional, it bothers me deeply when I see it otherwise.

Yes.

Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma? I've seen those English dramas too.

Yeah I do happen to use that comma

Grade school told me it wasn't optional. :(

Quote from: Thief888 on January 03, 2009, 03:00:45 AM
Grade school told me it wasn't optional. :(

Same, I didn't know I didn't have to use it until someone told me in middle school.

By that time, I had become so accustomed to it that I just continue to use it.

I also always use it.

In that particular instance (at the end of a list), I tend not to do it in either languages. In other instances (before a conjunction but not necessarily at the end of a list), I still won't do it in French but sometimes I'll do it in English.

I wasn't even conscious of the existence of this kind of comma. In French, we're simply taught never to use a comma in front of a conjunction and since French and English pretty much have the same phrasial structure, I assumed it was the same in English.

No, I prefer to leave the comma out.  It seems rather pointless to me.

Always.

yesss

Quote from: Travis's Best Friend on January 03, 2009, 01:45:38 AM
Even though it's optional, it bothers me deeply when I see it otherwise.

Same here.

It should be a law of proper english. Honestly, it's retarded that it's optional.

This is actually one of my biggest pet peeves. If not my biggest.

Seriously, LOOK AT THIS "I bought apples, milk and juice"

It implies the milk and the juice go together somehow. Like if you said "I bought apples, maple and brown sugar, oranges, and milk."

See, the maple and brown sugar go together.

I FUCKING HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE DON"T USE IT

It also looks like you should say "milk and juice" fast together. THERE SHOULD BE A PAUSE

I didn't until you guys pointed it out. Now I try to remember.   saddood;

Yeah I use it. It looks weird to me without it.

I've always thought it was proper to do so.

Yes, I've always used it O_0

depends on the words in the sentence and other spoken semantics

always.

i like using, punctuation!

Quote from: Andrew1911 on January 03, 2009, 01:58:53 AM
Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma? I've seen those English dramas too.

Damn. Beat me to it.

depends on the sentence

sometimes

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