And, as the case may be, or: Difference between revisions

Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lilly-livered “[[and/or]]”, the good people of the {{eccds}} 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 THIRTY-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 [[And/or|elsewhere]] how logically impossible is the [[slash]] at the heart of “[[and/or]]”.

So the {{eccds}} have ''taken out the [[Slash]]'' and replaced it with “[[as the case may be]]”: