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Dear Grammar Police, Your Smug Corrections Aren’t Helping Anyone.

I love harping on Oxford commas as much as the next editor, but it’s time we admit that policing punctuation is a pastime of the privileged, and a classist one at that.

Sarah Bronson
May 13, 2017
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