English needs a word for the inclusive or, and I'm down for committing robbery against one of our top victims.
You know when something can be either "or" or "and?" You may also say it is "and" and or "or"; "or" and/or "and," if you will. That's the inclusive or!
The Latin "vel" is a word for the inclusive or. I also just learned that the logic symbol, ∨, is called "vel" and is used for something called "disjunction" as opposed to "exclusive disjunction (⊻)," which is simply the exclusive or, which is the regular or in English.
"Xor" is exclusive, which means it is one, the other, but not both. In logic, an inclusive disjunction would be "or." The problem is people don't use xor and or; the use of just "or" makes things difficult to understand sometimes.
I understand that xor is the exclusive or. That means that or is indeed the inclusive or.
We already have the inclusive or, people just don’t use it properly. The beauty of language is that we can append inclusive or exclusive to make it clear.
While pronouncing xor as 'ex-or' makes sense, since the x stands for ex-clusive, most words in English that start with x make the 'Z' sound. Xenophobe, xylophone, xanax. But once again, the regular 'or' in English is already exclusive, so there's no need to make a new word for it, but I admit it would be fun.