The Fish-And-Chips Hyphen Disaster

language and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race • Martin Gardner offered the example: "Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"[4]

На изображении показан скриншот с шуткой о двусмысленности языка и чрезмерном использовании союзов «and». Мартин Гарднер приводит намеренно запутанное предложение о расстановке дефисов и кавычек в названии Fish-And-Chips; шутка высмеивает то, как пунктуация и структура языка могут сделать простой текст почти нечитаемым. EN: The image shows a screenshot joking about the ambiguity of language and the excessive use of “and.” Martin Gardner gives an intentionally confusing sentence about placing hyphens and quotation marks in the name Fish-And-Chips; the joke mocks how punctuation and language structure can make simple text nearly unreadable.

• @eternalclassic / 12897 2022-04-30