On 3/04/2016 5:11 a.m., Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2016-04-02, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
On 2/04/2016 8:17 p.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote:
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 09:23:05PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
"Add a template and/or example file to lib/templates/ respectively
lib/examples/."
...
As the son of a teacher of English and someone who spent a number of
years indexing, editing and proofreading books, I question whether the
"and/or" construction is needed at all. Just "or" suffices, the
"respectively" making it clear which destination is appropriate. So:
"Add a template or example file to lib/templates/ or lib/examples/,
respectively."
Thank you for the clarification.
As I am no native speaker, I am not sure whether this makes clear the point,
that you are free to do one of the following three:
a) add a template file to lib/templates/
b) add an example file to lib/examples/
c) add both, a template and an example file.
Just "or" means for non-programmers typically an exclusive or (at least in
German).
Maybe we should be just explicit, as many readers ar non-natives, too.
Günter
Good point. (Generally, if you want to emphasize an exclusive "or" in
English you add "either": "either A or B". But in everyday English I
suspect that "A or B" means something halfway between the logician's
inclusive and exclusive "or"s.)
Andrew
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