Sometimes the smallest things cause the most trouble. This not only holds for the odd typo in an email address or a mosquito in your bedroom, but also for translations of apparently simple little words. Such as ＾and.￣
As a look at the long list of definitions in any proper dictionary will show, ＾and￣ can handle a large number of quite disparate functions. Obviously, the ＾and￣ in ＾ham and eggs￣ does something entirely different from the one in ＾and they lived happily ever after.￣ We just don¨t give too much thought about it in English, because it¨s all done with one and the same word.
Japanese, by contrast, is a little more particular about its ＾ands￣ and that¨s where the trouble starts. Likely the first word for ＾and￣ new learners of Japanese will get to know is と (to). And in fact, it goes quite some way, provided you use it only with nouns, such as in 惚麗と勸暇 (kudamono to yasai, fruits and vegetables) or おばあちゃんとおじいちゃん (ob─chan to ojiichan, grandma and granpa).
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