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    Fred the Barber

    Posted · Edited by Fiddle

    34 minutes ago, Darklord Rooke said:

    Boo! Tell everyone to omit it instead. The ensuing obfuscation it will sometimes cause will provide much amusement 

    "I discussed the matter with Rooke, my friend and a grammatical expert."

    Ha! Look at how ridiculous that sentence is without the Oxford comma!

    Fred the Barber

    Posted · Edited by Fiddle

    I approve! All these preferences are in accordance with my―

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    Rule: when using "?!" at the end of a sentence to signify a surprised question, always use them in that order, not the opposite order.

    I LIKE THEM IN THE OTHER ORDER.

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    After an ellipsis, the next sentence SHOULD be capitalized IF AND ONLY IF the subsequent phrase is a separate sentence from the original and is an independent clause (i.e., it can stand alone as a sentence).

    Examples:

    • "I think you're... cute."
    • "You make me so mad... I'm going to kill you!"

    I suggest you use another example instead of the second one, considering that "I'm" is capitalized regardless of whether it begins a sentence.

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    Morever, in ADV-style games,

    Typo.

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    Style guides consistently recommend that punctuation goes inside quotation marks,

    In American English, commas and periods always go inside quotation marks (even when there's a quotation within a quotation). Meanwhile, everything else (exclamation points, question marks, semicolons, colons) can go outside of the quotation marks as needed. In contrast to what you say ("I diverge from typical style guides and recommend you move the punctuation outside the inner quotation"), your examples are in conformity with American style guides.

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    and also that when quoting, the quotation should be introduced with a comma.

    You may know this and not have said it, but the above applies only when the quotation is an independent clause. For example, each of the following is correct:

    • He said to me, "Give back the cat."
    • He told me to "give back the cat."

    Each of the following is incorrect:

    • He said to me "Give back the cat."
    • He told me to, "give back the cat."

    I can offer segments of The Chicago Manual of Style for the things above, because it appears that they don't want to make it freely available online.

    Lastly, TELL EVERYONE TO USE THE OXFORD COMMA, YOU HEATHEN.

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