And/or: Difference between revisions

And/or is not just ugly; it's defeatist, because of the presence of the [[virgule]], that whoreson slash, which is not even a part of idiomatic punctuation in the English language. It's a decoration. It has no fixed grammatical meaning. That slash admits that the plain, punctuated words of the English language have defeated you.

In fact, that slash means - and can only mean - “[[or]]”. So by saying "and or" you are really saying "and, or or". But to be hermetically sealed and consistent, shouldn't you go the whole hog, and say "and, and/or or"?

Never speak of this again.