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A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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This kind of problem falls under "communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood". Use parenthesis and the problem goes away.
https://xkcd.com/169/
on that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences
Isn't that basically what commas are for?