• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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      23 days ago

      Probably, as pictured.
      I miss them dearly.
      (However inappropriately they were later named.)

      But also TIL about the word wiki/Parataxis:

      Parataxis (from Greek: παράταξις, “act of placing side by side”; from παρα, para “beside” + τάξις, táxis “arrangement”) is a literary technique in writing or speaking that favors short, simple sentences without conjunctions, or sentences coordinated without the use of subordinating conjunctions.

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        23 days ago

        I bet XKCD is setting this up for a future issue where they make the correction and subsequent explanation.