Not the Vampire Weekend Song

[ericcheung]

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."
 

Intriuging.






* 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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[larivee22.livejournal.com]

Hee.