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[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

When it changes the meaning.

I went to dinner with two idiots, Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Vs

I went to dinner with two idiots, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.

If you intend for the reader to think you went to dinner with two people, treating the Oxford comma as mandatory is going to add ambiguity at best and change the meaning at worst.

this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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