numerical "and"

[Arnold Zwicky]

revised and expanded discussion of the topic on Language Log:

AZ, 5/15/09: Rigid complementarity:
  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1434

note: this posting is not a survey of the uses of "and" (vs. zero) in
numerical expressions, but is focused on motivations for the
proscription of "and".

arnold

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