In D13527#357435, @Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) wrote:

You should use "or" in this situation, you cannot zoom in and out at the same time it is one or the other.

In normal spoken English, we would say "zoom in and out" not "zoom in or out." But I can change it accordingly.

Nikhil Shringarpurey (Nikhil.Net) mentioned this in D13529: Fix awkward English in Zoom tool-tips (localized).Dec 9 2021, 6:13 PM

Updated phrasing to "in or out" vs "in and out"

Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) accepted this revision.Dec 9 2021, 10:29 PM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Dec 9 2021, 10:29 PM

You missed the msgid "Dolly in/out in the view".

Since it's discussed here how to correctly "AND" or "OR", you need to also look at the following lines, it would be nice to have consistency here.

msgid "Zoom in and out based on vertical mouse movement"
msgid "Zoom in and out based on horizontal mouse movement"
msgid "Zoom in and out based on mouse movement along the set Zoom Axis"
msgid "Zoom in and out as if you are scaling the view, mouse movements relative to center"

msgid "Axis of mouse movement to zoom in or out on"

It should also be taken into account that there are many similar cases:
in/out, show/hide, select/deselect, object/bone...

In D13527#357941, @Yevgeny Makarov (jenkm) wrote:
You missed the msgid "Dolly in/out in the view".

Since it's discussed here how to correctly "AND" or "OR", you need to also look at the following lines, it would be nice to have consistency here.
msgid "Zoom in and out based on vertical mouse movement"
msgid "Zoom in and out based on horizontal mouse movement"
msgid "Zoom in and out based on mouse movement along the set Zoom Axis"
msgid "Zoom in and out as if you are scaling the view, mouse movements relative to center"

msgid "Axis of mouse movement to zoom in or out on"
It should also be taken into account that there are many similar cases:
in/out, show/hide, select/deselect, object/bone...

I did see those, but while they are not optimal, they were not as broken as the "zoom in/out the view" ones that this fixed. The goal was not to eliminate the slashes, per se, but to make it not read like a 1980s Casio wristwatch manual. That said, I have another branch going now to clean up some other bad language cases, so I'll definitely add these to the pile.

These options provide users with both the ability to zoom in and the ability to zoom out. It would have to be a fairly complex control for “or” to be a better word.

The best analog would be a car’s steering wheel. In English we’d find it normal to say that the wheel allows you to turn left and right, and it sounds funny to say it allows turning left or right. If it allowed only left or right control this implies there is a switch somewhere that allows to only turn left at some times or only right at other times. Instead it allows both left and right turns at any time.

In D13527#358079, @Harley Acheson (harley) wrote:

These options provide users with both the ability to zoom in and the ability to zoom out. It would have to be a fairly complex control for “or” to be a better word.

The best analog would be a car’s steering wheel. In English we’d find it normal to say that the wheel allows you to turn left and right, and it sounds funny to say it allows turning left or right. If it allowed only left or right control this implies there is a switch somewhere that allows to only turn left at some times or only right at other times. Instead it allows both left and right turns at any time.

Agreed, Harley. That was my original phrasing as well. I still find the "or" phrasing to not track with normal English convention.