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submitted 2 years ago by catch22@programming.dev to c/languages@lemmy.world

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[–] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] wh0_cares@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

That helped, thank you!

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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