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{{a|plainenglish|{{image|Slash|png|O, whoreson [[Slash]]! Thou unnecessary character!}}{{image|Andor|png}}}}Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lily-livered “[[and/or]]”, the good people of the {{eccds}} say “hold my beer, wine and, as the case may be, or other alcoholic beverage howsoever described”. | {{a|plainenglish|{{image|Slash|png|O, whoreson [[Slash]]! Thou unnecessary character!}}{{image|Andor|png|AIFMD, Yesterday.}}}}Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lily-livered “[[and/or]]”, the good people of the {{eccds}} say “hold my beer, wine and, as the case may be, or other alcoholic beverage howsoever described”. | ||
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]]”. | 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]]”. | ||