Egbert White wrote:
> 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.
On it's own it is ambiguous - but I'm assuming that there is a statement
before this that makes the antecedent clear. The OP hasn't provided any
context and only asked which of two alternatives was grammatically
correct. The second alternative was definitely incorrect.
Einde O'Callaghan
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