_or not_ = _otherwise_?

[Charles Doyle]

Surely that's just a miswriting of "if not"?  Or maybe an incomplete alteration of "or" to "if not"; that kind of "editing" mistake it's so easy to make in emails!

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:18:27 -0400
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: _or not_ = _otherwise_?
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>It's a first for me.. Mybe it'll die out before it can spread.
>
>-Wilson
>
>On 8/21/06, Chris F Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
>>
>> A colleague of mine - based in Toronto, no idea about his status as a native speaker or not, but I would suppose it likely - just sent around the following warning about storage space running low on a particular server farm. He finished thus:
>>
>>  > Please do not trigger any new [company name] large import before above storage expansion is done; or not, it can run out storage and bring the farm down
>>
>>
>> Is initial _or not_ for _otherwise_ common? It's not easy to search for.
>>
>> Chris Waigl

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