Native English speakers are involved, also costly language consultants.
There is no excuse for bad wording but it's tolerated too much.
John Woodgate OOO-Own Opinions Only
J M Woodgate and Associates www.woodjohn.uk
Rayleigh, Essex UK
On 2018-04-06 08:30, Michael Derby wrote:
Typically the Directives are written by people who don’t have English as their
first language; and therefore their English is better than mine.
I tend to write with good and/or bad English at any time, without warning
and/or prejudice.
Michael.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian O'Connell [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 05 April 2018 02:02
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PSES] New Guide to the EMC Directive
'x and/or y' is and should be logically and grammatically represented as 'x, or
y, or both' (note the comma is not used to separate dependent and independent
clauses, but is a coordinating conjunctive between two independent clauses).
The common interpretation of a logical exclusive-or conjunctive is not correct,
as it would be 'x or y, but not both'.
The stuff here is written poorly, but seems to be correct:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And/or
Would be much simpler if we all spoke Klingon and the IEEE adopted the rituals
of Kahless in their ethical code.
Brian
From: Richard Nute [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2018 5:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PSES] New Guide to the EMC Directive
“and/or”
Logically, a situation cannot be both “and” and “or.” Nor can it be “and” or
“or.”
The use of “and/or” means the authors could not decide which alternatives are
required. Poor use of the English language.
Rich
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