@monorail Fortunately, English does not have any authority telling you what to do.

@Rosemary @monorail honestly there have been court cases that have been decided over grammar, i recall hearing in particular one that was extremely dependent on the oxford comma

@Frinkeldoodle @Rosemary sounds like people writing contracts and stuff should use lojban or something

@Rosemary @violet @Frinkeldoodle it's a format for specifying formal grammar

like "what is a C program allowed to look like"

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