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GaryGapinskilast Monday at 4:05 AM1 replyview on HN

The use of "try and" is usually grammatically incorrect (when "try to" was meant).


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dddgghhbbfblklast Monday at 4:15 AM

Prescriptively, maybe. But it is certainly grammatical in the sense that linguists normally use. "Try and" sounds perfectly natural to my own ears and it is regularly used by native English speakers.