too = 'either'

[Jonathan Lighter]

You guys don't get it, do you?

In your exx., "too" still = 'either.'

JL

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:

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>   Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > At 6/10/2012 04:25 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >> CNN promotes Gov. "Jesse Ventura's" scheme to abolish political parties:
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> >> "Imagine! No Republicans! No Democrats too!"
> > Why can't I understand this as too = 'also'?  "No Democrats also"?
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> I agree; it looks to me like an obvious riff on the song "Imagine":
> "Nothing to kill or die for / And
> no religion, too."
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> Jim Parish
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