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To non-native English speakers

bulbasaur said:
Umm, in the second case you would just write "we invited the strippers JFK and Stalin" to prevent ambiguity.
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... yes but that implies that you're /actually/ inviting JFK and Stalin as strippers. Whereas the point is that the second sentence is trying to say the same thing as the first, but failing because of the lack of Oxford comma.
 
Butterfree said:
Native Icelandic speakers are particularly prone to splitting up words that are supposed to be compound (probably a recent influence from English)
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We have that problem too, but I don't really think English is to blame so much as book covers, posters etc. where compound words are split over several lines (without hyphens) to fit better.

... That, plus a general fear of long words, maybe!
 
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