- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:27:46 -0500
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Kevin Benson<kevin.m.benson at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Kevin Benson wrote: >>> >>> 4.10.4.1.17 Radio Button state >>> >>> "Either neither a nor b have a form owner, or they both have one and >>> it is the same for both." >>> >>> S//Either a and b both have no form owner//Either neither a nor b have >>> a form owner// < - - (rewrote "either neither") >> >> What's wrong with either neither? >> > > I just hadn't ever seen and couldn't find another instance of such a > grammatical construction in technical documentation...anywhere. Is my > suggestion not _as_ clear (or clearer) ??? Wow, didn't see this the first time through. "Either neither" is difficult to parse on a first pass. One's instinct is to assume that it's a grammatical error. One has to read a bit to decipher that the "neither" is a nested phrase within the "either". While this is not ambiguous, neither is it clear. I like Kevin's suggested rewrite.
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