• CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No, I read the “win/win” as listing there only being two possible scenarios. They are saying you either win or you win. “Win/win” reads as “win or win”, so there is your “either… or”, but even then you don’t need to say specific words to be able to imply exclusivity.

    Example:
    “You must be joking, and if not, then you are a fool” Notice how in that sentence I did not use “either/or”, yet I still implied only two possibilities? Well, that sentence is homogenous to the sentence in OP’s post. I just used “if/then” instead of “either/or”.

    • zea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      You said “and if not” which is binary, but “if [predicate] [x] and if [predicate] [y]” is not generally exhaustive.