Comment by noizejoy

3 years ago

> “Sometimes writing for money, rather than for art, or pleasure, is really quite enjoyable.”

I think that changes the meaning, since it’s now a list of 3 items with an Oxford comma, rather than two lists, with the first list having 1 item, and the second list having 2 items. And I’m having a rough time even making sense of such revised meaning.

Expressed as pseudo-code, I read the original intent of that sentence as:

“money and not(art or pleasure) == enjoyable”

and that can be broken into

“((money and not art) or (money and not pleasure)) == enjoyable