Toast and eggs do not have to be separate. I love my eggs on toast. Then again, I really hate the Oxford comma. It's the last thing I want to see in a client's order. I always do it, but I hate it.

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It's called a shoutbox.

Lol. I meant

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'and' is insufficient, as there are plenty of terms like 'peanut butter and jelly' that must be kept together, while 'toast and eggs' must be considered separate

The and is the split, in my opinion. It separates it from orange juice toast and eggs. It's kind of like peanut butter toast and eggs or buttered toast and eggs. You don't write "I had butter, toast and eggs."

Whereas "toast, eggs, and orange juice" clearly splits the items apart while preserving the obligatory end of list signifier (i.e. 'and').

True, however the sentence "Toast, eggs and orange juice" requires familiarity/knowledge of the set {toast, egg+orange juice} versus {toast, egg, orange juice}. The latter, of course, is when one normally eats it.

In that example, it would go something like eggs. Toast and orange juice. At any rate, you would write I had eggs and toast topped with orange juice or something of the sort. It just doesn't read like that.

Yeah, like when annoying clients ask me to use it and I have to edit six times just make sure I added all the extraneous commas.

On another topic, the Oxford Comma still has uses:

Many software developers have damned UTF-16, but for entirely different reasons

You mean damn you UTF-8.

My ? were actually little notes. Damn you ascii

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