See above. Neither of those examples is confusing at all unless the Oxford comma is optional.
The confusion is caused by the comma. No comma, you’d obviously assume nobody is dipping their toast in juice or inviting dead dictators as strippers.
But because the superfluous comma is a thing, suddenly its absence is supposedly ambiguous. I speak several languages where the comma is outright incorrect in these sentences and I assure you nobody would find these sentences confusing.
I posted this above as well, but it’s very relevant to your comment.
See above. Neither of those examples is confusing at all unless the Oxford comma is optional.
The confusion is caused by the comma. No comma, you’d obviously assume nobody is dipping their toast in juice or inviting dead dictators as strippers.
But because the superfluous comma is a thing, suddenly its absence is supposedly ambiguous. I speak several languages where the comma is outright incorrect in these sentences and I assure you nobody would find these sentences confusing.