Timeline for Where to put "either"
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jan 26, 2015 at 20:30 | vote | accept | ygnim | ||
| Jan 25, 2015 at 12:04 | comment | added | Jim Reynolds | "And the question was immediate to a point of self-acknowledgement of either one’s inability to formulate abstraction into comprehensibly concise sentences...." Are you kidding? What does this mean? | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 9:37 | answer | added | Jim Farwell | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 8:52 | answer | added | Erik Kowal | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 8:26 | comment | added | Kris | "self-acknowledgement of (either deleted) one’s inability to formulate abstraction into comprehensibly concise sentences, if not just pure stupidity." | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 8:24 | comment | added | Kris | Preliminary thoughts: Although "of one’s either ..." would be the logical choice, it hampers readability; on the other hand, "of either one’s ..." can work, in a different sense ("one's" not common for the two clauses), too seems an awkward construction. When using the either-or pair, try making the alternatives as short as possible, that is, not to make the reader wait too long after either for the or. | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 8:06 | history | asked | ygnim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |