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Post by Dave Miller on Dec 28, 2020 18:09:13 GMT
Have you got your commas right, Twoddle? If so, I don’t understand.
The Oxford comma!
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Post by Verbivore on Dec 28, 2020 20:20:13 GMT
A subtle joke by Ivo Graham. It's all in the punctuation. Pfizer vaccine: effective, protective and safe Modena vaccine: effective, protective and safe Oxford vaccine: effective, protective, and safe. And no doubt if there were a Harvard vaccine: effective, protective, and safe. I had to look up Ivo Graham because I'd never heard of him. He's done well, given that some of his schooling was in Australia where the Oxford comma is a rarity. Presumably Oxford Uni sorted him out.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Dec 28, 2020 22:06:08 GMT
Surely, the first two sentences are the same?
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Post by Dave Miller on Dec 28, 2020 23:28:10 GMT
Surely, the first two sentences are the same? Yes, indeed. Two the same are needed so that the **OXFORD** vaccine is the odd one out. Why odd? Because it contains the **OXFORD** comma!
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Dec 29, 2020 0:14:15 GMT
Oh. I see. I’m obviously not subtle. The odd one out didn’t occur to me. I was looking to each to having a different meaning. I’ve obviously contracted covid information fatigue syndrome. I move next business.
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Post by Verbivore on Dec 29, 2020 21:03:06 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Dec 31, 2020 10:50:13 GMT
Perhaps by the time I arise tomorrow morning, someone else will have started the first thread of the new year, when 2020 vision will be hindsight.
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