jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 months agoDoes “and” really mean “and”? Not always, the Supreme Court rules.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down15
arrow-up1141arrow-down1external-linkDoes “and” really mean “and”? Not always, the Supreme Court rules.www.motherjones.comjeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squareCapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoYou’re missing the grammatical point of a itemised list though. Writing abc is not condition 1, condition 2, and condition 3. Reads as the “not” distributing so as to create the full sentence(es) abc is not condition 1, abc is not condition 2, and abc is not condition 3. In other words, writing this as an itemised list makes it different from writing it as the sentence abc is not condition 1, condition 2 and condition 3.
You’re missing the grammatical point of a itemised list though. Writing
Reads as the “not” distributing so as to create the full sentence(es)
In other words, writing this as an itemised list makes it different from writing it as the sentence