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No, a series separated by commas or semicolons and a conjunction between the penultimate and the final item is equivalent to the same series with that conjunction between each item, so the "or" between B and C means that the sequence is A or B or C, not A and (B or C).


You're right, I reread it in a hurry and projected my original reading onto it by mistake. Sorry for the confusion.




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