Timeline for "There are things I can't give up either/too", which is correct?
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| Jul 24, 2021 at 3:09 | history | edited | Tim Pederick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added "dislike" example mentioned in comments.
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| Jul 24, 2021 at 3:04 | comment | added | Tim Pederick | @DarthPseudonym: Agreed! I deliberately avoided "dislike" (in favour of a form using "not") in my answer. But given that you and Darren Ringer have both mentioned it, I'm going to go edit it in. | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 16:47 | comment | added | Darren Ringer | "He doesn't like the new neighbors. I don't like them too" does seem very unusual and arguably incorrect (certainly not idiomatic). However, "He dislikes the new neighbors. I dislike them too." would be perfectly fine and the use of "either" would unambiguously be wrong with that choice of words. | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 11:28 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | @IsaacMiddlemiss Well, yes, that is the most correct way to say it, but at least in american english, we've largely removed the distinction between either and neither at least in this context. (There's still a big difference between "either one" and "neither one".) | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 1:45 | comment | added | Isaac Middlemiss | In NZ if someone said "I don't like him", it would be common for the response to be "Me neither", I would be quite surprised to hear someone say "Me, either" | |
| Jul 23, 2021 at 1:19 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | I agree with you, @DarthPseudonym. This is how we would do it — if we did it at all: He doesn’t like the new neighbours. I, too, don’t like them. | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 20:51 | comment | added | Isaac Middlemiss | I'm inclined to think "too" is more correct in OP's example, as the sentence is actually positive/affirming, beginning with "There are", as Rosie highlights. If it was reworded to "I can't give up some things too/either", then I would go for "either", but I naturally use "too" in the first. | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 16:48 | comment | added | Lawrence | With “I don’t like them, too/either”, too emphasises the similarity between the speakers whereas neither emphasises the ‘not liking’. | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 15:54 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | For what it's worth, as an American English speaker, your third example ("He doesn’t like the new neighbours. I don’t like them too.") sounds completely wrong to me. Which is interesting, because "I dislike them"/"I dislike them too" is perfectly fine, and I wouldn't be shaken if I said "I don't like him" and somebody replied "Me, too" rather than "Me, either". Maybe other Americans would be fine with it, but that example just sounds bizarre to my ears. | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 9:23 | history | answered | Tim Pederick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |