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Eh. I tend to use the Oxford comma myself, but there’s a possibility for ambiguity either way. Consider:
- We invited the stripper, JFK and Stalin.
- We invited the stripper, JFK, and Stalin.
Sentence 1, without an Oxford comma, is clearly about three individuals. Sentence 2, which uses an Oxford comma, is ambiguous between that reading and one in which JFK is a stripper.
Basically: by all means use whichever convention you like, but don’t act like it removes ambiguity from your writing. It merely shifts that ambiguity to different sentences.
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