• Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
    54·
    4 天前

    Ugh all the time. I’m liberal, well educated, and nerdy. Notice my use of an Oxford comma! I also happen to live in a rural town in Texas. I play pool in a league and let’s just say kindred spirits are few and far between.

    • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      4 天前

      The comma after ‘educated’ is redundant, since its purpose is already met by the word ‘and’.

      Edit: I honestly wasn’t quite sure if I was correct here but was feeling pedantic and now the downvotes tickle me.

      • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 天前

        Agreed. The Oxford comma is superfluous in a list of adjectives.
        If you’re listing adjectives that modify a single noun, there is no ambiguous regrouping of those adjectives that can change their meaning. They all still modify the noun. If you are listing nouns, as in the popular “strippers, JFK, and Stalin” meme, then there is room for confusion and the comma helps to clarify.
        Regardless, if the intent is clear, it’s a silly rule to get nitpicky about. Fuck the haters.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          4 天前

          The only rule that really matters in the end is to take good care of your readers. The little rules only ease the burden; if you want rules about how to talk, do software instead of English.

        • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 天前

          It changes how I read it though. I expect the list to continue so I read it as if it will, then it doesn’t and the rhythm is off. Not a huge deal, like you say, the intent is clear enough. But it does still add clarity for intended sentence fluency, at least for those of us with strict Oxford comma discipline, lol.

    • ddplf@szmer.info
      1·
      4 天前

      You say you’re a liberal, so you’re either a wealthy, greedy dick; or actually not well educated at all.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      13·
      4 天前

      I’m guessing this means that, in your experience, white (or only cis white?) people shit-talk each other behind each others’ backs more than other racial groups do?

      • Delphia@lemmy.world
        16·
        4 天前

        I’m a straight, white and middle aged person and its crazy how many other people of the same demographic just assume we share their bigoted fucking views. Perfect strangers dont even feel you out before talking about whichever “them” they are bothered about. Its shockingly common.

      • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip
        10·
        4 天前

        Like the other reply said, any minority is liable to be shit talked about. Recently I’ve been subjected to a lot of second hand homophobia at work (I haven’t fully come out yet)

        • Drusas@fedia.io
          1·
          3 天前

          I have not experienced this, but I wouldn’t associate with people who speak that way or treat others that way.

  • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
    3·
    3 天前

    Nah, but i thought that while reading this tweet… Does that count? 😅

  • SlumDogGazillionaire@piefed.socialEnglish
    17·
    4 天前

    Sitting down with 99% of my colleagues during lunch. “Playing the links”, fantasy football, ai-generated memes, or how much wealth they have. Christ read a book or something for Christ’s sake.

  • cmbabul@slrpnk.net
    29·
    4 天前

    Every moment people at work talk about how excited they are to retire in 20 years, or how happy they are to have hit their deliverables this quarter

  • Axolotl@feddit.it
    18·
    4 天前

    Me looking at my family full of conservatives (and borderline fascists) conversing, fully aware that i could’ve been killed if that day i decided to present myself with painted nails:

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
    14·
    4 天前

    My extended family. It’s either (slightly) conservative older uncles and aunts or its my beautiful, successful, married with children, living in their own houses cousins.

    I love them all (and there are many of them). They are good people. But I feel disconnected from their lives. Not only am I one of only two who have moved far, far away from home, but I am also the family black sheep, a little envious and I just don’t share in the highs and lows they all share with one another simply by them all being married and parents and their lives completely orbiting around that.