negative "as well"

[Jonathan Lighter]

My impression is that I used to see it in undergraduate papers, but I'm sure I've heard it from younger speakers.  Its use on TV didn't strike me as new.

JL

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This is my first experience with it, Jon, and I'm with you. That
string is word-salad to me.

-Wilson

On 5/1/07, Jonathan Lighter  wrote:
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> "That fact hasn't come out as well [i.e., _either_] " --Gretchen Carlson, _Fox & Friends_.
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> I've heard this construction a number of times, though all I can say about it for sure is that it's impossible for me.
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> Does this sound normal to anyone ?  Do people avoid "either" because of doubts about its "correct" pronunciation ?
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> JL
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens
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The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones.

                                           Rumanian proverb

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