Example: #6c, Section 1.1:
``Either the food is good and the service is excellent, or else the price is high.''
We might begin by assigning letters to the statements involved:
Then, assuming a non-exclusive or, we would translate our English sentence as
Negating
and using De Morgan, we obtain
Using De Morgan once again, we have
or
``The price is not high, and either the food is not good or the service is not excellent.''
We then might try to write this so that it sounds better (but at the risk of misrepresenting the facts!):
``The price is cheap, but either the food is no good or the service is poor.''