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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child doesn’t have an opinion on the Oxford comma—or at least enough writing experience to know which system their teachers typically prefer—maybe they’re not quite ready for college?[/quote] My kid isn’t applying for admission to the school she already attends, and that school teaches good writing, not slavish arbitrary rules.[/quote] Okay, but look at the arbitrary rules you followed in your post alone: beginning your sentence with an uppercase letter; ending with a period; using a contraction with an apostrophe; joining two independent clauses with a comma and the coordinating conjunction “and.” Was it slavish to follow those rules? We surely could have understood your meaning if you hadn’t, and great writers have chooses at various points to eschew these rules. What in your opinion makes a particular rule slavish? [/quote] You don't seem to understand what the word "arbitrary" means. [/quote]
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