#44499
10/13/2001 3:44 PM
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A pet peeve of mine.
I was wondering if anyone else had noticed how many people have dropped the nor in favour of or? I was always taught that it was neither a nor b and yet, I am constantly seeing and hearing neither a OR b.
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#44500
10/13/2001 5:47 PM
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[chanting]Keep that nor! Keep that nor![/chanting] 
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#44501
10/13/2001 7:09 PM
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I am constantly seeing and hearing neither a OR b.
I am neither seeing nor nor hearing nor.
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#44502
10/13/2001 7:17 PM
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I searched for "neither....or" and found several instances, though "neither......nor" was more often used. But undoubtedly the OED will take the side of the morons, and say the either is acceptable.
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#44503
10/14/2001 1:06 AM
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I am neither seeing nor, nor hearing nor, nor is seeing, hearing.
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#44504
10/14/2001 1:09 AM
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I am neither seeing nor, nor hearing nor, nor is seeing, hearing.Dang--you're a lawyer, all right! 
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#44505
10/14/2001 1:12 AM
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"I am constantly seeing and hearing neither a OR b."
Shouldn't that be "neither a NOR b"?
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#44506
10/14/2001 1:37 AM
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"I am constantly seeing and hearing neither a OR b."
Shouldn't that be "neither a NOR b"?
Yup--I believe that was his point...
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#44507
10/14/2001 2:15 AM
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I thought he was "seeing and hearing neither, a or b. Now I get it: "Neither a or b" was what he was seeing and hearing. Not "a or b". What ever happened to commas and quotation marks, anyway? I think they went the way of the "neither/nor".
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#44508
10/14/2001 2:16 AM
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I thought he was "seeing and hearing neither, a or b". Now I get it: "Neither a or b" was what he was seeing and hearing. Not "a or b". What ever happened to commas and quotation marks, anyway? I think they went the way of the "neither/nor".
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#44509
10/14/2001 7:48 PM
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I think I'm just going to neither ig-nor-e this thread ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#44510
10/15/2001 4:18 PM
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Reminds of of the story back in the 1930s when two men stole steam engines and began to race them toward one another on a single set of tracks. One had a drunk at the controls, and he had no idea he was heading for a collision. The other had a guy from Oslo at the controls, and being the pig-headed Norwegian that he was, he was certain the other guy would turn to avoid a collision. Regardless, the trains did not collide because Norse is Norse and souse is souse and never the trains shall meet.
TEd
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#44511
10/15/2001 5:15 PM
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Nor neither either nor, none.
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