Did this Maine law without an Oxford comma require overtime pay for delivery drivers? (user search)
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Question: Did this Maine law without an Oxford comma require overtime pay for delivery drivers?
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H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY
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« on: March 23, 2021, 01:21:20 PM »

Voted yes by mistake. The omission of an implicit Oxford comma is a common grammatical construction that occasionally creates ambiguity, but is often used to mean the same thing. The omission of a conjunction (“marketing, storing, or packing for shipment or distribution of”) is a much starker issue that radically changes how the sentence is read for nearly everyone. Note that the two examples of asyndeton implicitly omit the word “and”, not “or”.
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