[Taxacom] latin out of botany

[Curtis Clark]

On 7/20/2011 10:06 PM, Don.Colless at csiro.au wrote:
> As an anglophone (if you count Australian), I believe that I do know the function of "or" - in usual conversation, the exclusive version, as opposed to the inclusive version (=and/or) used by logicians.
Um, the exclusive version was originally that of logicians, and the 
inclusive "or" was the ordinary sense. The meaning in English has changed.

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Curtis Clark
Cal Poly Pomona