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{{a|plainenglish|[[File:Andor.png|center| | {{a|plainenglish|[[File:Andor.png|center|500px|[[And/or]] on steroids, or maybe a hallucinogenic trip]]}} | ||
Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lilly-livered [[and/or]], the good people of the European | Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lilly-livered [[and/or]], the good people of the European Commission’s crack drafting squad say “HOLD MY BEER”. | ||
It might not even make idiomatic, let alone legal, sense, but the expression “[[and, as the case may be, or]]” appears THIURTY-THREE times in the {{tag|AIFMD}} implementing regulations. Our best guess is that this is simply a novel, frightful, way of articulating the already gruesome expression “[[and/or]]” — one about which the [[JC]] can scarcely complain, having noted before how logically impossible is the [[slash]] at the heart of “[[and/or]]”. | |||
So the European Commission’s crack drafting squad have ''taken out the [[Slash]]'' and replaced it with “[[as the case may be]]”: | |||
“and, [[as the case may be]], or”. | “and, [[as the case may be]], or”. | ||
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Breath taken. There’s a portal to the fourth dimension right there. An information superhighway direct to the [[Boredom heat death|boredom heat-death]] of the universe. | Breath taken. There’s a portal to the fourth dimension right there. An information superhighway direct to the [[Boredom heat death|boredom heat-death]] of the universe. | ||
By another immutable law of the universe, the number of slashes must remain constant. So if the ECCDS have taken out thirty three of the blighters, they must appear somewhere else, perhaps small, tiny, curled up into another dimension, but they are there. They ''must'' be. I wonder where. | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
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*[[Virgule]] | *[[Virgule]] | ||
*[[As the case may be]] | *[[As the case may be]] | ||
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