alt Hacker NewsWell they didn't teach me English. Or in English for that matter.
And I don't think I've ever used the Oxford comma.
There was probably some rule about not beginning sentences with Or and And but you probably know better than I.
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jabron • today at 10:45 AM
The Oxford comma is the comma before the conjunction in a list of three or more terms, e.g. "one, two, and three". I think your sentence actually didn't need a comma anway.
Different cultures have different norms and rules. I think you're saying that, in your native language, they taught you not to use mathematical notation in prose.
They didn't teach you that about English, though. It's quite common to write "21x" for "21 times" in English and is pretty much universally understood and accepted by native speakers.