On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:51:04 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> On 23/07/2013 02:27 PM, Warp wrote:
>> > Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> >> I especially enjoy how "and" sometimes means "or", and "or"
>> >> sometimes means "and". No wonder students suck at Boolean algebra!
>> >> :-D
>> >
>> > I find it more interesting that the same word "or" is used in speech
>> > for "inclusive or" and "exclusive or", yet it very rarely, if ever,
>> > causes any confusion.
> 
>> Like I said, sometimes "or" clearly means "and", and vice versa, and
>> yet everybody understands this.
> 
> "And" is not the same as either "exclusive or" or "inclusive or".

Logically, it isn't.  Linguistically, though, it can be.

Jim

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