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[โ€“] wh0_cares@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

A more detailed version of the sentence would be:

We need more space between the word fish & the word and, & the word and & the word chips

3 of the "and"s are the literal actual word "and", while the other two are referring to the word "and" on the sign.

[โ€“] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

That helped, thank you!