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Originally Posted by Bob Steele
The actual words in the volunteer document:
o Safety glasses must be worn at all times in the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge and Aerial Robotics pit areas and the field areas on the Dome floor.
I would interpret this to only mean that their are FRC, FTC, and Aerial Robotics pit areas.... and there are field areas on the Dome floor.
I don't think you can infer that the Aerial Robotics pit areas are in the field areas...
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One of the many sources of ambiguity in English is the domain of conjunctions, leading to multiple parses of the sentence you quote above.
For example, is it:
[[Safety glasses must be worn at all times in] [the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge and Aerial Robotics] [[pit areas] and [the field areas on the Dome floor.]]]
or
[[Safety glasses must be worn at all times in] [[the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge and Aerial Robotics] [pit areas]] and [the field areas on the Dome floor.]]
But I agree "implies" is a little too strong in my earlier post, so I'm editing it to say "may imply"