The Strippers … JFK and Stalin?

September 19, 2011 in Check it out! | 3 comments

Laughingly lifted from Language Log.

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T.R. Nunes on September 19, 2011 at 9:34 pm

ROFL! Makes me wonder if someone ever came up with a spoofed “Eats, shoots, and leaves” cover featuring former US Vice President Dick Cheney. ;-0
Matt on September 29, 2011 at 8:25 pm

Actually, you’re wrong. Serial/Oxford commas are simply a matter of house style and preference. Some publications use them, some don’t. So both of these sentences mean the exact same thing.

If Stalin and JFK were strippers, you could use a colon:

“We invited the strippers: JFK and Stalin.”
Jerry on September 29, 2011 at 9:07 pm

Ah, it’s not me … I pulled this off of Language Log, where the debate rages, Oxforders on one side, people of your mindset on the other. I’m staying out of it — I just thought the cartoon was funny.

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