After talking to my phone, I have to spend so much time correcting what it thinks it hears that I just type it anyway and try to remember not to be caught out by the auto correct.
Ah! That explains a lot!
I can type fairly fast, just not very accurately. It's the thinking that takes the time.
The only conversation I have with technology is out of frustration. "Hurry up!" - when the computer is going slow. "Stupid f....ing website" when it doesn't load properly. Or "Lazy b...." when I get a site that moans about modern browsers.
I disagree. We should all, motorists and otherwise, be allowed to assume that an approaching motorist is not exceeding the speed limit, and act accordingly. If I am crossing a wide road in a 30mph zone nd someone is approaching at 40mph, they are more likely to cause an accident. Similarly if another motorist is trying to pull out, the speeding motorist is likelier to cause a collision. Children or animals are more likely to be hit. Speed limit deniers, in their way, are as dangerous as weather deniers.
I'm quite happy with several alternatives. "Either" is trickier, but I still don't mind it having several subsequent options because there doesn't seem to be an alternative when trying to express "one of the following" (except to use the phrase "one of the following").
Says you, but is the meaning so difficult to understand if you suppress your indignity?
Says Chambers:
Don't dance around the point Trev.
For my money, "either" implies exclusivity. I don't think the selection operator "or" in language works the same as the truth operator "or" in Boolean logic. Thus "use either lane" does not include "use both lanes".
Extend the idea of synonym to include phrases too. A dictionary then lists words together with synonymous phrases. Without that, we would never be sure what a word means. (Except by using a pictionary.)