How The Oxford Comma Created A Small Diplomatic Incident

How the UK has or hasn’t threatened to divide Sri Lanka

The UK Conservative party’s neglect of the Oxford comma has caused a small diplomatic incident with Sri Lanka. This missing comma would punctuate Sri Lanka’s borders and our government has stopped fighting Switzerland long enough to address this insult.

Once the UK is done fucking itself, it will get back to fucking the world

This is all stupid, like the Conservative party, but I won’t get into the content yet, just the grammar.

You use an Oxford comma like this:

Cyprus, Sri Lanka, and the Middle East, which we’ll continue bombing.

In this case the Middle East gets bombed, but not Sri Lanka. The Oxford comma protects us.

Cyprus, Sri Lanka and the Middle East, which we’ll continue bombing.

If you don’t use the Oxford comma, Sri Lanka also gets bombed. This is the problem.

Sometimes the Oxford comma is optional. Like Paul, John, George and Ringo. George and Ringo are not one person and no one will…