Not the Vampire Weekend Song
Aug. 31st, 2008 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's a song by Vampire Weekend called "Oxford Comma" and I looked up what it was. The wiki article is here(it also talks about parenthetical commas*):
Turns out it's the serial comma I use when creating lists. Apparently there's an extremely fierce debate about it. What inspired the song was that the bandmates were at Columbia University where a club was started to preserve the Oxford Comma, prompting them to ask who cares about an Oxford Comma. Well I do, Vampire Weekend. I do. I've used them devotedly since the seventh grade (as well as parenthetical commas).
And I'm not the only one. Quoth Lynne Truss, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: "There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don't, and I'll just say this, never get between these people when drink has been taken."
And I'm not the only one. Quoth Lynne Truss, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: "There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don't, and I'll just say this, never get between these people when drink has been taken."
Intriuging.
* for further information on parenthetical commas please peruse entry 2 in the Grammar section of the Wikipedia entry for Comma (puntuation).
* for further information on parenthetical commas please peruse entry 2 in the Grammar section of the Wikipedia entry for Comma (puntuation).
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Date: 2008-08-31 10:39 pm (UTC)