Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5M
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#2I'm as big a fan of the Oxford comma as anyone, but the court ruling here was ridiculous. External evidence, including the state legislature's style guide, made it perfectly clear what the law meant.
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#3Feels like they could have made this even simpler by reordering the exemptions. For example:
The distribution, canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing or packing for shipment of:
I'm a fan of the Oxford comma and think it would still add clarity here. The semicolon solution is ham-fisted and unnecessary.
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#5Just my 2c: to me the original is really really hard to parse. I'm not sure why, but it just doesn't make sense to me.
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#6Maybe the easiest way to settle things like this would be to simply not give exemptions for overtime pay.
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#7To paraphrase one of my favorite quotes (from the guy who developed Comic Sans):
If you really love the Oxford Comma you don't know much about writing and need a new hobby. If you really hate the Oxford Comma you don't know much about writing and need a new hobby.
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#8That clever bastard dropped an Oxford comma right from the very first sentence of the article.
(I understand the Times style guide advises against it. I'm still pretty sure he did it on purpose.)
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#9I'm as big a fan of the Oxford comma as anyone, but the court ruling here was ridiculous. External evidence, including the state legislature's style guide, made it perfectly clear what the law meant.
style guides are not laws and if the style guide changes it changes the meaning of the law.
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#10Can someone explain why these exemptions exist in the first place?