Oxford Comma?

[Shaytan]

My famous lack of diplomacy

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Though I doubt even Americans have attempted peanut butter and Nutella, which is big amongst UK students.

I think Americans prefer nutella and marshmallow fluff instead.

How dare you corrupt the untarnishable splendour of Nutella with such vile substances. Nutella is to be partaken pure and undiluted, so its deliciousness would not be diminished.

Even the use of bread is an unfortunate, but sometimes necessary, addiction.

Well, I'll often just eat Nutella with a spoon, but if I want to put myself in a sugar coma, the fluff comes in. It's essentially a sandwich equivalent of a s'more.

 

[iguana_tonante]

It's essentially a sandwich equivalent of a s'more.

I wish I could say I don't know what it is, but as a matter of fact I know it, and I wish I didn't.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The awesome combination of peanut butter and bananas needs no Oxford comma, because it is a pair.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

It's essentially a sandwich equivalent of a s'more.

I wish I could say I don't know what it is, but as a matter of fact I know it, and I wish I didn't.

What's wrong with s'mores?

 

[scotpens]

you can imagine what the locals thought they were spreading on their bread!

I can honestly say that I have no idea what they thought they were spreading on their bread.

I assumed they thought it was shit. But then, I have a filthy, scatological mind.

 

[iguana_tonante]

What's wrong with s'mores?

Probably nothing, except that they sounds like your teeth would be breaking up upon contact from the sheer amount of sugar in them.

Obviously it's a very personal determination to make, but for me they cross the line from "sweet" to "nauseatingly sugary". Twice. With a somersault.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

So you won't be having any Nutella and Marshmallow sandwiches, I take it

 

[iguana_tonante]

I'll stick with my tiramisù.

 

[JarodRussell]

I actually had an Oxford Coma once.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Is it when you go binge-drinking after your PhD viva voce and end up in alcoholic stupor?

 

[Holdfast]

I actually had an Oxford Coma once.

You're not meant to have sex with the students if they're unconscious.

 

[M'Sharak]

I actually had an Oxford Coma once.

You're not meant to have sex with the students if they're unconscious.

 

[Skellington]

I've adopted it relatively recently; in the last three or four years, I guess. Really, the word "and" provides enough of a pause in its own right.

 

[6079SmithW]

I was taught not to use it as a child but I find myself using it a lot more now.

 

[Sector 7]

I do not use it because I was taught in elementary school that you didn't need before an "and". It looks awkward to me and I always assume it's poor writing.

This is what I was taught as well.

I can't remember being taught about the Oxford Comma at all. But I do remember a teacher drawing attention to my overuse of commas, once upon a time. He thought it was funny as I was the only kid in the class that remembered to use them at all...

Oh - and peanut butter? Popular over here. I love the stuff.

We may have had the same teacher.

As for other punctuation:

Book, television series, movie [I was taught underline back in the typewriter era]
"Episode", "Article", "Chapter"

He said, "I willingly defy 'the man' at every opportunity."

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Yup, that's how it's done. And I agree with the quote as well.

Yeah, Italics or Underline, with underline being the necessity of a typewriter that has stuck.

I remember having to underline in the typewriter days. I hated that.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I usually underline because it's what I was taught. Also, fwiw, the same rule applies for court cases, e.g. either Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 37 U.S. 483 (1954) or Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 37 U.S. 483 (1954). Once again, I think underline looks better, but I'm sure it was originally just supposed to be italics.

 

[BlobVanDam]

I use the comma, because it looks correct, and properly separates the different parts of the sentence. I think that's how I was taught, but I use it because it looks right anyway.

 

[scotpens]

I usually underline because it's what I was taught. Also, fwiw, the same rule applies for court cases, e.g. either Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 37 U.S. 483 (1954) or Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 37 U.S. 483 (1954). Once again, I think underline looks better, but I'm sure it was originally just supposed to be italics.

In newspaper and book publishing, underlining was used in typewritten copy to indicate text to be set in italics. Modern word processing makes the need for underlining obsolete. It looks ugly and amateurish.

YMMV.