A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months
A nearly year-old Facebook event for a "simple maths competition" has been one of the most viral posts on the platform for six months.
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This kind of problem falls under "communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood". Use parenthesis and the problem goes away.
on that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences
My language teachers always told me it was bad form to use too much or even to nest parenthesis...
Then I found lisp...
Lost In Stupid Parenthesis.
People try and use commas for this sort of clarification and are eviscerate for it.
With these sort of math problems, the rules are taught early and then all subsequent math is written in an unambiguous form.
Language has the oddity of going the other way around where the rules get more complex as a display for advanced skills.
eviscerated
God, can you even spell???
Get your act together.
We have them in written language, though?
This is why grammar is important, and "grammar nazis" are the only good kind of nazis.
Isn't that basically what commas are for?
Why (I don't see) not