"Neil Kolban" <kolban@kolban.com> wrote in message news:<10n039fnv35j79b@corp.supernews.com>...
> Folks,
> While traveling in San Francisco this week, I noticed that their tram system
> at the airport states:
>
> "This tram is a no smoking, drinking and eating facility".
>
> My question is ... should this not be:
>
> "This tram is a no smoking, drinking OR eating facility".
>
> Does their initial statement not mean that I am not allowed to smoke, drink
> and eat simultaneously but any combination of these is permissible?
>
> Neil
It should be "OR". But most of people do not care about the logic.
They
are assuming people understand it.
Base on the post at airport or public area, we can not "smoke, drink
and eat"
at the same time, but we can "smoke", "drink", "eat" , "smoke and
If you study computer science, understand software language. It is a
huge different between "AND" and "OR".
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