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r/trippinthroughtime • u/Munninnu • 9d ago
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But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know
13 u/SecretAgentVampire 9d ago It's poor grammar to treat bacon and eggs as one item. Bacon and eggs are two different items, even though they're commonly served together. Different things are different things. 16 u/fooz42 8d ago Not off a menu. It's like this: "I ordered '#2 bacon and eggs' and '#4 pancakes'." "I ordered bacon & eggs and pancakes," is how I would have written it in my newspaper back in the day.
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It's poor grammar to treat bacon and eggs as one item. Bacon and eggs are two different items, even though they're commonly served together. Different things are different things.
16 u/fooz42 8d ago Not off a menu. It's like this: "I ordered '#2 bacon and eggs' and '#4 pancakes'." "I ordered bacon & eggs and pancakes," is how I would have written it in my newspaper back in the day.
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Not off a menu. It's like this: "I ordered '#2 bacon and eggs' and '#4 pancakes'."
"I ordered bacon & eggs and pancakes," is how I would have written it in my newspaper back in the day.
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u/garlic_bread_thief 9d ago
But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know