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    I don't like rock music or chillout music

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    I don't like rock music or chillout music

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    Somebody told me recently about a book in which the following sentence appears:

    I don't like rock music or chillout music.

    I'd say that this is grammatically incorrect. Either: I like neither rock music nor chillout music. Or perhaps: I don't like rock music, nor chillout music. But not the above. Am I right?

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    AuthorWuerfel21 Sep 10, 21:21
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    No, that sounds like normal English to me. You can put the emphasis on the "or" in speech - I don't drink coffee OR tea.

    You could say "I like neither rock music nor chillout music," but that would be very formal. "I don't like either rock music or chillout music" would be fairly emphatic. "I don't like rock music nor chillout music" is unidiomatic in my AE ears, but that doesn't mean it's not used that way in some other variant of English.

    Linguists could tell you about "exclusive or" and disjunctions and whatnot.
    #1AuthorKatydid (US) (unplugged)21 Sep 10, 21:27
     
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