For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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    Yeah, which is exactly why you don’t need one to finish lists. It makes it sound like you forgot the last thing. “Peaches, pears… eh… and apples”.

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      In the case of the Oxford comma it’s more to distinguish between items in a list that are combined by the “and” or items in a list that are separate items. It’s not used to indicate a pause in this scenario.