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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:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-30 22:33:07 +0200)

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