[lit-ideas] Me Too (Was: So Do I)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 02:37:47 EDT
In a message dated 5/30/2010 11:56:24 P.M., jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx
writes:
RP:
"Me too, Judy. Wait—should that be I too?"
LOL. Take that, JL
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Yes, it SHOULD be, "I too". Actually, "Also I". "Too" is merely
implicatural (emphatic), 'also' isn't.
E.g.
If you say:
Susan is a virgin.
Patricia is a virgin, too.
Would you say that, on finding that Susan is NOT a virgin, (b) becomes
false?
where (b) is
"Patricia is a virgin, too".
No. "Patricia is a virgin, too", remains TRUE if she IS a virgin, even if
Susan isn't. The 'too' is immaterial to the truth-conditions of the
statement.
"Also" is another animal.
JLS Bordighera -- where they speak Better English than in Thailand.
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