I think this Oxford comma is fine in cases like the above, where you're switching from single word list items to phrases, so you want a break between the two parts of the list.
In cases like the putative "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" I think it's superfluous. It's not a break, it's purely a list separator. But "and" is already doing the job being a list separator. The comma therefore doesn't mean anything, so it shouldn't be there.
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Date: 2004-01-15 03:51 am (UTC)I think this Oxford comma is fine in cases like the above, where you're switching from single word list items to phrases, so you want a break between the two parts of the list.
In cases like the putative "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" I think it's superfluous. It's not a break, it's purely a list separator. But "and" is already doing the job being a list separator. The comma therefore doesn't mean anything, so it shouldn't be there.