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0 pointsjerrysievert2y ago0 comments

huh, I read that in a completely different way than you. my brain inserted an Oxford comma:

> don't want the unreliability of a German luxury car or a Tesla

became

> don't want the unreliability of a German luxury car, or a Tesla

since the addition of the article "a" seemed to change the meaning. had it been

> don't want the unreliability of a German luxury car or Tesla

it would have conveyed even different meaning to me.

I'm kind of curious what the GP's post actually meant at this point.

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cshimmin2y ago

That's not what an Oxford comma is, FYI. I think GGPs interpretation is grammatically correct but I agree that the phrasing is ambiguous. But given Tesla's documented unreliability one can assume what they meant...

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