too = 'either'

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 11 02:55:05 UTC 2012


Too (either)
Jonathan Lighter <<< too = 'either', <Imagine! No Republicans! No Democrats
too!> Jesse Ventura, CNN>>>
Wab: Too (either) is a characteristic of Chinese learners of English, an
interlingual product of Mandarin influence. Not sure, but I seem to
remember that young Anglophone children also produce too (either), until
their code becomes more elaborated. Jesse?s code never evolved, apparently.

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