alt Hacker NewsGood writers use semicolons and em-dashes. Sometimes we used bulleted lists or Oxford commas.
- You seem to have a rather high opinion of your own writing :-)
- Why the mix of tense (use/used)?
- Oxford commas are a monstrosity
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dolebirchwood • today at 12:48 AM
> Oxford commas are a monstrosity
This is objectively wrong.
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john_strinlai • today at 2:12 AM
to be honest, these little petty attacks bug me more than some ai comments. at least some of the ai comments generate good conversation afterwards.
smt88 • today at 12:18 AM
"Used" seems to be a typo.
Being anti-Oxford comma is baffling. It's almost zero extra effort and reduces confusion.
> Oxford commas are a monstrosity
Please don’t present your personal aesthetic beliefs as if those who disagree are morally wrong ‘bad people’. This ‘monstrosity’ comment in this context is derogatory-by-proxy of everyone (including the person you’re criticizing) who uses them, whether they know anything at all about your arguments that they should not, and that’s not really a good tone for us users here to be taking with each other.