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Re: Improved welcome screen


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Improved welcome screen
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:35:05 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> +     :link ("Contributing & Bugs"
>
> I can't remember the official name for such a thing (it's related to
> "zeugma" which I learned about in the incomparable "dictionnaire superflu
> à l'usage de l'élite et des nantis", which is strongly recommended
> reading), but you could call it a "type error": you join with `&`
> two things from different categories.

According to rules of the Writers Guild of America West
the word “and” located between writers' names in a writing
credit designates that the writers wrote separately and
an ampersand (“&”) denotes a writing team:
https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/faq#credits4



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