I agree! Not that the other way is wrong or anything. It's just my personal preference.

"This toy is available in pink, purple, black and white."

Is that one option or two? I much prefer a comma between all choices so that it stands out what they are. After all, that up there (in my mind) doesn't tell me if black and white are separate choices or if there's a toy that's both black and white.

This is what we were all told in elementary. But in the age of computers, it does not apply. It's outdated. Granted, just about every teacher out there still drills that into us.

Agreed that it's outdated and not at all necessary. None of my teachers have ever taught it that way to me though.

Just one for me.

um one for me

I agree with this, and it is what I was taught in school as well.

Yup! I actually found this out because I had a professor that used two (or what sometimes looked like three, actually) spaces and it made me wonder, so I asked. Two spaces with a word processor is unnecessary!

The ol' Oxford comma debate! The intended function of the Oxford comma is not just to suit stylistic conventions, but actually to reduce ambiguity. However, it often only serves to increase it. I did a quick Google search of examples of each; anyone interested can peak below and see how the usefulness of the Oxford comma is situational.

To my parents, Walt Whitman and God.

Here you would definitely want to use a serial comma, otherwise you seem to be saying Walt Whitman and God are your parents. At the very least you could rearrange the series so that "my parents" terminates the sequence, although you may be sacrificing giving prominence to yr folks. But the comma can also introduce ambiguity as seen below.

To my father, Walt Whitman, and God.

Here it looks as if Walt Whitman may be an apposition that modifies the first noun. If you take away the Oxford comma then there is no doubt, because an apposition is always sandwiched between two commas.

So yeah. I'm not terribly strict about all the little rules and I'm also pretty shit at remembering to follow them. It's one of those things where I think conversational habit takes over and translates into corresponding grammatical practices. Still, my education has drilled the rules into me so I know them should I ever decide to call upon 'em.

That should happen on pretty much any website. HTML doesn't care how many spaces you use, it always collapses any amount of whitespace down to one space. (well, except inside ‹pre› tags, or where CSS properties have been set to change the behavior, but that's rare)

So it doesn't matter how many spaces you use on most websites, including EdenFantasys.

Most typesetting software (e.g., LaTeX) ignores extra spaces, too.

Word processors, however, tend to do what you tell them to do. Most modern style guides suggest using only one space, unless using a monospaced font (e.g., Courier) in which case some suggest two (in order to emulate the common style used with typewriters).

Just the one! hahahah just to see how it feels!