Re: and/or?

["nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>]

Raj wrote:
> Technical documentation does not have any place for
> ambiguities like "and/or".

Like any expression, it can be used sloppily.  
But Merriam-Webster has no trouble defining it.
The Microsoft Encarta dictionary has no
trouble defining it.  The American Heritage
dictionary has no trouble defining it.  If
it's ambiguous in context, I think that's
the fault of the writer rather than of 
the expression.

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