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Subject: Re: Weird words
From: "Kathleen MacDowell" <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>
To: "Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:48:38 -0500

This thread was so amusing I "had" to forward parts of it to some of my
correspondents. My son replied the following, which I've attached.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ian macdowell <imacdowell -at- yahoo -dot- com>

it's usualy written as "logical-or" or "logical-and" operation. As in, a
logical-and operation can be used to combine element a and b.


On 10/5/06, Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> wrote:



Karen Murri wrote:

I worked on control system standards for a large food manufacturer. One of
the programmers had written a paragraph that used the word OR as a verb,
as
in "OR the two sections of the program." He insisted that he couldn't
think
of any better way to say it. He told me he often used AND as a verb, too.



"OR" and "AND" make perfect sense to anyone who has done programming
or written about software. They are Boolean concepts and in the
example OR is an action to be taken on two section of the program,
hence a verb. They are always written in uppercase. There might be a
better way to write the sentence for clarity, but we don't know that
because we were only exposed to a fragment.
Al

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