Re: [9fans] Bay Area Plan 9 Users Group Meeting (August '07)

["Gorka Guardiola" <paurea@gmail.com>]

On 7/31/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> > > bring friends, family, well-behaved dogs and interns, etc.
>
> there is no distributive property of adjectives over nouns except maybe
> if the adjective preceedes the whole list.  like arithmetic, except the
> results of the parser may depend on the conscience of the parser.
>
> which is good if you are friends, family or an intern.
>

With the commas as they are, etc meaning "and other things" and having
and "and" where it is, this reads (I think in a standard parser):

bring
- friends,
- family,
- well-behaved dogs and interns,
- etc.

either grouping (well-behaved dogs) and interns or well-behaved (dogs
and interns)
in a rather ambiguous way. Can we bring bad-behaved interns?.

The "and" is redundant in the presence of the "et" in the "et cetera",
unambiguously meaning
that there is a grouping or class of equivalence being defined.
Though I am not a native english speaker though, so I might be wrong.

Back to the assembler...
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