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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on September 15, 2022, 12:17:56 PM

Title: No Oxford comma use to save English NHS as long as staff are positive!
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 15, 2022, 12:17:56 PM
Patronising, empty headed, and fatuous bilge.

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Title: Re: No Oxford comma use to save English NHS as long as staff are positive!
Post by: Gordon on September 15, 2022, 12:29:09 PM
Utter bollocks - the quicker these Tories implode the better.
Title: Re: No Oxford comma use to save English NHS as long as staff are positive!
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 15, 2022, 01:07:10 PM
Coffey is nauseating.

Her sole purpose in life is to make people vomit.
Title: Re: No Oxford comma use to save English NHS as long as staff are positive!
Post by: jeremyp on September 15, 2022, 02:16:45 PM
She's quite right about the Oxford comma.
Title: Re: No Oxford comma use to save English NHS as long as staff are positive!
Post by: Udayana on September 15, 2022, 05:29:54 PM
Quote from: jeremyp on September 15, 2022, 02:16:45 PM
She's quite right about the Oxford comma.

How is she right? It is just a matter of style and adding it to her list just makes it even more patronising.
Title: Re: No Oxford comma use to save English NHS as long as staff are positive!
Post by: Steve H on September 15, 2022, 11:05:58 PM
I don't like Oxford commas either, but proscribing them is incredibly petty, patronising, and annoying (see what I did there?).
Title: Re: No Oxford comma use to save English NHS as long as staff are positive!
Post by: jeremyp on September 16, 2022, 09:23:39 AM
Quote from: Udayana on September 15, 2022, 05:29:54 PM
How is she right? It is just a matter of style and adding it to her list just makes it even more patronising.

She's right because the Oxford comma does not resolve the problems of writing ambiguous English. Its advocates view it as some kind of silver bullet that will make all clear, usually invoking some silly made up example. We don't need it. We need to structure our sentences more carefully.

There's nothing like a petty and inconsequential rule to get people up in arms. I predict her next missive will be on the correct way to hang a toilet roll.
Title: Re: No Oxford comma use to save English NHS as long as staff are positive!
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on September 17, 2022, 09:59:55 PM
The show isn't over until Therese Coffey sings.
Title: Re: No Oxford comma use to save English NHS as long as staff are positive!
Post by: SqueakyVoice on September 18, 2022, 11:24:21 AM
Quote from: Walt Zingmatilder on September 17, 2022, 09:59:55 PM
The show isn't over until Therese Coffey sings.
Now the NHS staff will have to wake up and smell The Coffey.

https://liveapp.inews.co.uk/2022/09/16/an-oxford-comma-may-grate-on-therese-coffey-but-linguistic-dictatorship-never-works/content.html