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Rule "either X nor Y"

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Description: either X nor Y
Message: Try using 'or'.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/word-choice-either-or-neither/
Tags: [picky]
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • It failed intermittently for more than a day but there was nothing in either our client nor in our server logs…
    Correction suggestion: or
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State during the war, testified to Congress in 1984 that the Reagan administration believed a victory for either Iran or Iraq was "neither militarily feasible nor strategically desirable."
  • For example, it is not the case either that R is a subset of P nor that P is a subset of R.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: EITHER_NOR [2]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-10-15 22:33:07 +0200)