OR

■ She had been startled, she hardly knew if she felt a pleasure OR a pain.
■ He doesn’t dress up OR act up to his appearance.

■ As anyone who has been to college knows, most professors are not especially
strong OR beautiful.

■ They would seldom OR never see each other

■ The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million ; every one of
which has been pierced, OR is still pierceable
■ Well, he might have been murdered by the Vietminh. OR he might have been
killed by the Vietnamese sureté – it’s been know.
■ Don’t amuse yourself too much, OR I shall think you’re doing it at my expense.
■ ‘Oh’, she said, looking at last at something floating in the sea, ‘is it a lobster
pot ? Is it an upturned boat ?’ => is it a lobster pot OR an upturned boat ?
■ She had asked herself when it woud begin, like fire-works, OR Lent, OR the
opera season
■ Chuck did not call on Friday, OR on Saturday, Sunday, OR Monday. He’s
sulking, she thought.

■ She elbows her way deftly past less experienced passengers who are searching
for their seat numbers OR are encumbered with excess luggage OR with
children, excusing herself in a thin pleasant voice.
■ She elbows her way deftly past less experienced passengers who are searching
for their seat numbers AND are encumbered with excess luggage AND with
children, excusing herself in a thin pleasant voice
1) OR inclusif et OR exclusif, les deux
facettes d’une même altérité
■ She will declare that she adores some acquaintance, OR a cousin, OR her
greengrocer OR dentist, because they are so marvellous at arranging roses, OR
speak so slowly OR have such curly hair.
■ The winds and waves mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged
in the darkness OR daylight.
■ Wherever she happened to be, painting, here, in the country OR in London, the
vision would come to her.
■ Men do not now gaze upon her with dismay, as upon a beloved landscape
devastated by fire, flood OR urban development.

■ OR <= OtheR = altérité (otherness).

■ OR inclusif est simultanément un OR d’équi-possibilité / de compatibilité / de
complémentarité et un OR de différenciation.
■ A door must be (EITHER) open or shut.
■ He will EITHER fight or die.
■ ‘A million apiece ?’ I asked. ‘OR a joint account ?’
■ Au restaurant : ‘Soup OR sald ? Soup OR salad ? I can’t decide. Soup OR
salad ?’
‘I’ll bring you both or we’ll be here all night !’
■ OR exclusif glosable par ‘X est situationnellement incompatible avec Y’, -> effet
sélection nécessaire

■ Trait [+ dis-]
2) OR outil de reformulation
(reformulatory OR)
■ I hadn’t asked to be saved, OR to have death so painfully postponed.
■ Eire OR the Republic of Ireland
■ The warm, determined way Chuck grasped her arm – OR RATHER, the arm of
her raincoat
■ They stood there with an air of defiance, OR at least of contention.
■ She is not my child and nothing could ever make her so. I have never wanted
substitutes. OR I don’t think I have
3) OR outil d’approximation
(approximator)
■ Why should she sit alone for seven OR eight hours ?

■ VS. Why should she sit alone seven TO eight hours ?

4) OR de condition / causalité
négatives
■ Hands off, OR I’ll scream !
■ Either you put her face right, OR I’ll break every bone in your body.
■ Go home, OR ELSE you’ll be late for supper.
■ Have some nice pictures taken of first, OTHERWISE they won’t even consider
your application.

■ Damn you, let me go. OR I’ll make a hell of a row.