No Oxford comma use to save English NHS as long as staff are positive!

[Nearly Sane]

Patronising, empty headed, and fatuous bilge.

https://archive.ph/ThzzB

[Gordon]

Utter bollocks - the quicker these Tories implode the better.

[Aruntraveller]

Coffey is nauseating.

Her sole purpose in life is to make people vomit.

[jeremyp]

She's quite right about the Oxford comma.

[Udayana]

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.

[Steve H]

I don't like Oxford commas either, but proscribing them is incredibly petty, patronising, and annoying (see what I did there?).

[jeremyp]

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.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

The show isn't over until Therese Coffey sings.

[SqueakyVoice]

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