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submitted 8 months ago by catch22 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No matter how many times I read this it makes no sense, why so many ands the first time?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

A more detailed version of the sentence would be:

We need more space between the word fish & the word and, & the word and & the word chips

3 of the "and"s are the literal actual word "and", while the other two are referring to the word "and" on the sign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That helped, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

A comma after the first two ands would make things clearer.