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Nominal Animal:
In human text, square brackets are often used within quotes to indicate uppercase/lowecase initial change (when around a single letter), replace or clarify indirect and implicit references, or to add clarifications like [sic] (to indicate an error in the original).  In general, it specifies a difference to the exact original.

For example, if I said "I like apples.  I know it is said that eating one a day keeps the dogtor away.", one can quote me precisely using "[I]t is said that eating one [apple] a day keeps the dogtor [sic] away."

You can find this in several style guides, I believe.

IDEngineer:
Completely agree, for regular writing! But I thought the context here was software.

cv007:

--- Quote ---read the menu .......Fish with chips and salad or vegetables.
Because logical complements ( not ) are performed first, logical conjunctions ( and ) are performed next, and logical disjunctions ( or ) are performed next.
so menu should read...........Fish with chips, AND salad OR vegetables
--- End quote ---
You created the same menu- your fellow lawyers will still read it wrong, and the normal person who had no problem before will now be thoroughly confused.

A simple word swap would probably satisfy anyone-
Fish and chips with salad or vegetables

xrunner:

--- Quote from: cv007 on January 28, 2024, 02:38:07 pm ---
--- Quote ---read the menu .......Fish with chips and salad or vegetables.
Because logical complements ( not ) are performed first, logical conjunctions ( and ) are performed next, and logical disjunctions ( or ) are performed next.
so menu should read...........Fish with chips, AND salad OR vegetables
--- End quote ---
You created the same menu- your fellow lawyers will still read it wrong, and the normal person who had no problem before will now be thoroughly confused.

A simple word swap would probably satisfy anyone-
Fish and chips with salad or vegetables

--- End quote ---

People are already brain-trained to know what type of "variable" the foods in a menu are

If you think of programming, then menu "variables" in people minds are these types

main_meal

side_dish

drink

dessert

So we have these variables already set up in people's wetware (brain) and the brain knows what to do with them when a menu is read -

main_meal fishAndChips;

side_dish salad, vegetables;

drink coke, tea, water;

So when they see

Fish and chips with salad or vegetables

They know what the variable types are already and can decode it easily.

It decodes to -

main_meal + (side_dish || side dish);

Sortof like that. It's already set up in the brain (for most people).

coppice:

--- Quote from: xrunner on January 28, 2024, 03:04:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: cv007 on January 28, 2024, 02:38:07 pm ---
--- Quote ---read the menu .......Fish with chips and salad or vegetables.
Because logical complements ( not ) are performed first, logical conjunctions ( and ) are performed next, and logical disjunctions ( or ) are performed next.
so menu should read...........Fish with chips, AND salad OR vegetables
--- End quote ---
You created the same menu- your fellow lawyers will still read it wrong, and the normal person who had no problem before will now be thoroughly confused.

A simple word swap would probably satisfy anyone-
Fish and chips with salad or vegetables

--- End quote ---


People are already brain-trained to know what type of "variable" the foods in a menu are

If you think of programming, then menu "variables" in people minds are these types

main_meal

side_dish

drink

dessert

So we have these variables already set up in people's wetware (brain) and the brain knows what to do with them when a menu is read -

main_meal fishAndChips;

side_dish salad, vegetables;

drink coke, tea, water;

So when they see

Fish and chips with salad or vegetables

They know what the variable types are already and can decode it easily.

It decodes to -

main_meal + (side_dish || side dish);

Sortof like that. It's already set up in the brain (for most people).

--- End quote ---
Americans have been trained to think "entre" on a menu doesn't mean the starters. :)

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