Re: Use of "and/or"

Subject: Re: Use of "and/or"
From: Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:47:30 -0500


Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> ... overused or misused does not automatically invalidate their
> usefulness in the right places.

'Course not.

But 'and/or' is *usually* an obfuscation masquerading as precision, and
always a cliché.

LQ


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References:
Re: Use of "and/or": From: Lou Quillio
Re: Use of "and/or": From: Gene Kim-Eng

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