Timeline for As much as "you" or "you do"
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| Aug 17, 2017 at 11:08 | history | edited | insanity | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2017 at 20:04 | comment | added | egmont | I faced a similar question regarding the lyrics of The Vaccines: If You Wanna. It says "friends I do not like as much as you". Is it "friends I do not like as much as I like you" or "friends I do not like as much as you like them"? If I understand correctly, it's probably the former, solely because the latter meaning would need another "do" at the end :-) | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 12:12 | history | edited | 200_success |
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| Nov 6, 2014 at 12:03 | history | edited | insanity | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2014 at 6:45 | answer | added | Pitarou | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 3:01 | answer | added | Aidan Miles | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 12:28 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | "We hate spam just as much as her" could very well be intended to mean "We hate spam just as much as she does". Pullum advises that "She was taller than him" sounds less 'ridiculously stuffy' than the prescriptively required "She was taller than he". However, I'd aim for clarity as top priority. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 11:26 | comment | added | Kris | Grammatically speaking the do is required. However, it is so common and better-sounding to drop the do so as not to appear overly-academic. It works in informal and semi-formal writing, including e-mail and routine business correspondence. No need to worry, or you may be thought to be pedantic. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 9:38 | comment | added | ElendilTheTall | Yes. But you could say that about any ambiguous statement :) | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 9:36 | comment | added | insanity | @ElendilTheTall So you're saying, having a "do" is not necessary, IF the context is clear. If a certain shady character were saying the same thing, and it were possible for us to derive either meaning, we'd want him to make it more explicit. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 9:09 | comment | added | virmaior | I think you are right that they are saying they hate you just as much as they have spam. What a terrible company. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 9:01 | comment | added | ElendilTheTall | Yes, based on context the meaning is pretty clear to native speaker and yes, "we hate spam just as much as we hate you" would be more correct and explicit. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 8:21 | history | asked | insanity | CC BY-SA 3.0 |