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From: Egbert White <eggwhite@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Correct use of 'neither'
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On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:13:40 +0100, Einde O'Callaghan
<eindeoc@freenet.de> wrote:
>Susanne Colbeth wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> using web translators, I got different results:
>> 1. I did not know this either.
>> 2. I did not know this neither.
>>
>> Which of those is correct? Can anybody help?
>> (I tried with translation from spanisch, where 'tambien' changes to
>> 'tampoco').
>
>The first is correct.
But it's ambiguous, hence to be avoided. It can mean 'I knew neither
this nor something else,' or 'Neither I nor someone else knew this.'
That is, in 'I did not know this either,' the antecedent of 'either'
is not clear.
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