Grammarly.

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

This is also not an Oxford comma, but the vestigial remains of the vocative case; our once more highly inflected English language used to have gender, too.

[heydaralon]

The kind of people that don't use oxford commas are the same kind of people who don't wait half an hour after eating before jumping back in the pool. Losers.

[TheReal_ND]

used to have gender, too

Like half a millennia ago. Interestingly, some would have you think that's due to Latin but Celtic languages used gender in language as well. Not sure if germanic languages ever did.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Also, I am not sure if all of the grammar rules have caught up with the relatively new concept of having real-time, typed conversations.

Especially when it comes to commas or infinitives, and the splitting thereof.

[TheReal_ND]

Oh they catch up.

"Drumpf irrevocably without doubt BTFO now click this shit,"

vs

"Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries."

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

used to have gender, too

Like half a millennia ago. Interestingly, some would have you think that's due to Latin but Celtic languages used gender in language as well. Not sure if germanic languages ever did.

English is a Germanic language. Swedish in particular has lost much of its inflections and gender differentiation, but Germanic languages are gendered and, despite that bullshit about Latin that DB posted, sentences tend not to end with prepositions, although for the same reasons. Way back when I was a kid, we had actual actresses and even an arrant aviatrix; there were barmaids and stewardesses instead of bartenders and flight attendants.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Oh they catch up.

"Drumpf irrevocably without doubt BTFO now click this shit,"

vs

"Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries."

Lordy, I stand corrected.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

used to have gender, too

Like half a millennia ago. Interestingly, some would have you think that's due to Latin but Celtic languages used gender in language as well. Not sure if germanic languages ever did.

English is a Germanic language. Swedish in particular has lost much of its inflections and gender differentiation, but Germanic languages are gendered and, despite that bullshit about Latin that DB posted, sentences tend not to end with prepositions, although for the same reasons. Way back when I was a kid, we had actual actresses and even an arrant aviatrix; there were barmaids and stewardesses instead of bartenders and flight attendants.

Why not 'bartendresses?'

[TheReal_ND]

Never meant to imply English wasn't of germanic derivative; simply unsure if gender was used like it was/is in Celtic and Latin derivitaves. Been a while since I slept through german101. I was thinking of taking a refresher to kill time and honor my heritage but what's the point?

[Okeefenokee]

Did you all learn to diagram sentences?

yeah. not nearly as useful as the algebra.