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[H2X]

I was taught not to use the Oxford comma at primary school. I was taught to rewrite sentences to avoid ambiguity.

I propose a vote between

Oxford comma
No Oxford comma
OR
Both
OR

[Thomas_ER]

I was taught not to use the Oxford comma at primary school. I was taught to rewrite sentences to avoid ambiguity. Some of my friends, however, were taught to use it. Same country, same school system, different instructions. It seems what we learn and hold to be true depends on what our teachers were taught.

Turtles all the way down.

I hope you all have an enjoyable 25th December. Or 25 December. Or December 25th. Or December 25. Or 25/12/2017. Or 25/12/17. Or 25.12.2017. Or 12.25.2017. or 12-25-2017. Or 20171225. Or Christmas Day. Or Xmas Day. Or Chrimbo. Or Navidad. Or Noel. Or ........

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[toml_12953]

I was taught not to use the Oxford comma at primary school. I was taught to rewrite sentences to avoid ambiguity.

I propose a vote between

Oxford comma
No Oxford comma
OR
Both
OR

Heh, heh! Since you live in Norway, you can't use the Oxford comma. The only countries in the world that can use it are Canada, the USA and Mexico. No continent other than North America allows it in their schools. Sorry UK and Austrailia. Even though your primary language is English, the Oxford comma isn't for you. You do have spreadable yeast extract, however. Yum!

[Walter]

Heh, heh! Since you live in Norway, you can't use the Oxford comma. The only countries in the world that can use it are Canada, the USA and Mexico. No continent other than North America allows it in their schools. Sorry UK and Austrailia. Even though your primary language is English, the Oxford comma isn't for you.

Sir, do I have to teach you the difference between can and may? Haakan can use the Oxford Comma, of course, like anybody else on this planet can do. Whether it's assessed being an error in schools is a totally different cup of tea. Taking into account educational standards as they seem to be, anything goes in the US of A (well matching the observations here). I don't know about Canada. I severely doubt about los Estados Unidos de Mexico - AFAIK they speak and write Spanish there (as they do in the South of the USA frequently). I concur with Thomas in recommending you brushing up your "state of information".

[DA74254]

Hmm, only to ask, and what I vaguely remember; isn't semicolon to be used to avoid disambiguity?
As in "I met with my parents; Jill and Tony" (not mine, just an example), where semicolon is used for statement that is inside one sentence. Thus no need for capital letters as if used colon? (Ok capital letters d.t a name, but) "I left 35c tip; a dime and a quarter", and "You have two choices: Left or right".

Perhaps I'm trampling like an elephant in a glass house here, but beside reading and practicing English, I have not had English lessons in well over 30 years since school.

Btw; I'm a native Norwegian

[toml_12953]

Heh, heh! Since you live in Norway, you can't use the Oxford comma. The only countries in the world that can use it are Canada, the USA and Mexico. No continent other than North America allows it in their schools. Sorry UK and Austrailia. Even though your primary language is English, the Oxford comma isn't for you.

Sir, do I have to teach you the difference between can and may? Haakan can use the Oxford Comma, of course, like anybody else on this planet can do. Whether it's assessed being an error in schools is a totally different cup of tea. Taking into account educational standards as they seem to be, anything goes in the US of A (well matching the observations here). I don't know about Canada. I severely doubt about los Estados Unidos de Mexico - AFAIK they speak and write Spanish there (as they do in the South of the USA frequently). I concur with Thomas in recommending you brushing up your "state of information".

In common American English usage, may and can are used interchangeably. Besides, Trump has banned other countries from using the Oxford comma. If a certain foreign country (run by a "short, fat, sick puppy" in Trump's words) doesn't stop testing and development of Oxford comma technology immediately, the USA will institute sanctions and call for a UN resolution labeling that country as a terrorist state. Unfortunately, the wording was screwed up in all the documents and the term "Oxford comma" was changed with a global search and replace to the term "nuclear weapon." This changed the semantics considerably.

[Walter]

Heh, heh! Since you live in Norway, you can't use the Oxford comma. The only countries in the world that can use it are Canada, the USA and Mexico. No continent other than North America allows it in their schools. Sorry UK and Austrailia. Even though your primary language is English, the Oxford comma isn't for you.

Sir, do I have to teach you the difference between can and may? Haakan can use the Oxford Comma, of course, like anybody else on this planet can do. Whether it's assessed being an error in schools is a totally different cup of tea. Taking into account educational standards as they seem to be, anything goes in the US of A (well matching the observations here). I don't know about Canada. I severely doubt about los Estados Unidos de Mexico - AFAIK they speak and write Spanish there (as they do in the South of the USA frequently). I concur with Thomas in recommending you brushing up your "state of information".

In common American English usage, may and can are used interchangeably. Besides, Trump has banned other countries from using the Oxford comma. If a certain foreign country (run by a "short, fat, sick puppy" in Trump's words) doesn't stop testing and development of Oxford comma technology immediately, the USA will institute sanctions and call for a UN resolution labeling that country as a terrorist state. Unfortunately, the wording was screwed up in all the documents and the term "Oxford comma" was changed with a global search and replace to the term "nuclear weapon." This changed the semantics considerably.

As I wrote above already:

Taking into account educational standards as they seem to be, anything goes in the US of A (well matching the observations here).

Don't get excited, just wonder how far unbroken selfconfidence will carry them - before they realize they're just a minor part of the community on this planet.

[Geoff Quickfall]

1) Can is an ability to do something.

2) May is permission to do it.


They are not interchangeable as they have different meanings.

“Geoff can have a scotch.” (This sentence indicates that I have an ability to drink scotch: mouth, throat and etc.)

“ Geoff may not have a scotch.” (This sentence indicates that I do not have permission to have the can of scotch.)


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I learnt the following with respect to commas: x, y and z. English mother, Canadian father and Canadian school system.


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Can’t wait to have my book critiqued

[grsbanks]

“ Geoff may not have a scotch.” (This sentence indicates that I do not have permission to have the can of scotch.)

You can buy scotch in cans in Canada? I may move there just to see this with my own eyes...

[keithdalby]

1) Can is an ability to do something.

2) May is permission to do it.

I'm a teacher. When a student asks me if they can go to the toilet, my standard response is, 'I don't know, can you?'

When they return from their exolutions, I tend to ask if they were successful and, when they affirm that they were, exclaim something like, 'glad we solved that little puzzle.'

I also ask if they've washed their hands.