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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

bacon, ham or sausage and eggs

0Reading the bruch menu on Saturday, I saw this Bacon, ham or sausage and eggs (with toast)02br
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0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00Can someone please explain this to me. 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-

— Clive

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0Hi,02br
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01font00Can someone please explain this to me. 02font00I'd say that, apparently, restaurant workers are not required to have skills in grammar or Boolean logic.02br
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0the thing is that when i told her that, she flipped out and informed me that she had gone to unversity and that it was gramatically correct.02br
00My 15 year old brother now gloats over the fact that I was wrong and I cannot find a "technical"explanation as to why I am indeed right.02br
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0 When the communication is ambiguous, everybody gets to be right! Or wrong.02br
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00 I think the pragmatics of the situation was supposed to disambiguate thus: The typical breakfast order consists of a meat, two eggs, and toast. This menu allowed three choices of the meat element. Some menus are clearer on these issues; some are not. I've seen that set-up listed
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(ham+eggs+sausage).eggs.toast

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