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{{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”. | {{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 | It might not even make idiomatic, let alone legal, sense, but the {{tag|AIFMD}} implementing regulations contain the string “[[and, as the case may be, or]]” ''thirty-three'' times. | ||
=== O, whoreson Slash === | |||
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]]”. | |||
This drafting pedantry is so so committed to the craft; so ''heroic'' that it would be churlish to observe you could have got what you came for with a simple “or”. So let’s park that and just revel in it. | This drafting pedantry is so so committed to the craft; so ''heroic'' that it would be churlish to observe you could have got what you came for with a simple “or”. So let’s park that and just revel in it. | ||
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This is black-belt stuff, gang: ''Nested'' {{tag|flannel}}. A flannelette phase, (one already displaying a keening want of [[ontological certainty]]) ''embedded in'' another flannelette phrase ''that also displays {{t|profound ontological uncertainty}}''. | This is black-belt stuff, gang: ''Nested'' {{tag|flannel}}. A flannelette phase, (one already displaying a keening want of [[ontological certainty]]) ''embedded in'' another flannelette phrase ''that also displays {{t|profound ontological uncertainty}}''. | ||
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 lexical 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 [[slash]]es must remain constant for all time and in all universes''. So if the | By another immutable law of the universe, ''the number of [[slash]]es must remain constant for all time and in all universes''. So if the {{Eccds}} have taken out thirty three of the blighters, ''they must be somewhere else''. Perhaps small, tiny, curled up into another [[Space-tedium continuum|space-tedium]] dimension, but somewhere, there are thirty three extraneous [[slash]]es. There ''must'' be. | ||
I wonder where. A | I wonder where. A Nobel prize, surely, awaits those who find them. | ||
[[File:Slash.png|none|1px]] | [[File:Slash.png|none|1px]] | ||
[[File:Slash.png|none|1px]] | [[File:Slash.png|none|1px]] | ||