"I also" Vs "Me too"

[David Morris]

I think I'm going to start using "I also" just because it both sounds
strange and is more correct than "me too."

David Morris

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 8:57 AM Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Nothing wrong with "I also”  on its own of course  - it just sounds
> awkward and that’s the problem.
>
>
> Becky
> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>
> > On Jan 13, 2018, at 6:42 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > There are a lot of “understood”  words in contemporary English.   With
> the phrase “Me, too”  the understood words could be “*That’s true for*  me,
> too.”    And  “I also”  works if you add the last words -  “I also like ice
> cream.”
> >
> > Sometimes what is correct sounds really pathetic  -   “Are you going
> with him and me?”   (So use “us”  if possible.)
> >
> > Often it’s just a matter of adding the additional word(s)  -   “I’m not
> as tall as him” is incorrect.  But "I’m not as tall as he”  sounds worse.
>   But when you actually use the last (understood)  verb -  “I”m not as tall
> as he *is*”   it’s fine.
> >
> > It doesn’t always work but it helps.
> >
> > Becky
> > https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
> >
> >> On Jan 13, 2018, at 1:37 AM, Neel Shah <neelshah.sa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> English got rid of the accusative dative distinction at some point.
> Could be a possible theory?
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_case
> >>
> >> On 13 Jan 2018 10:32 am, "Neel Shah" <neelshah.sa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Things like these are more visible to me since moving to a German
> speaking country.
> >> In German, this is easily explained by the clear case separation.
> >>
> >>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/German/comments/2n2tpn/ich_auch_mir_auch_or_mich_auch/
> >>
> >> On 13 Jan 2018 3:47 am, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> They seem the same, but grammar couldn't allow that.
> >>
> >> "Me too," is so US ubiquitous that gut thinks it right as a
> declarative.  But "me" is not a subject, is it?  An object cannot command a
> verb, right?
> >>
> >> My inner 4th grader is emerging, and grammar was a powerful math to
> learn back then.  Graphing sentence structure was fun.  Nerd, I was.
> >>
> >> David Morris
> >>
> >
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