<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Mike Dougherty <msd001@gmail.com> wrote:</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>"LTE not available everywhere"</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><br>> Does anyone else have a
problem with this caveat of cell phone marketing?<br><br>I see nothing wrong with it, but we're all entitled to our pet peeves. </div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">Here is one of mine: I refuse to use the idiom "as well" in place of "too". What is "as well" supposed to mean? And why not instead use the simple and straightforward "too"?</div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">This dialogue makes sense to me:</div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">"I like ice cream."</div><div class="y_msg_container">"I like ice cream, too."</div><div class="y_msg_container">"Great! Let's go get some ice cream."</div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">But using "as well" instead, I see this happening:</div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">"I like ice cream."</div><div class="y_msg_container">"I
like ice cream, as well."</div><div class="y_msg_container">"As well as what? Do you like it as well as you like pie?"</div><div class="y_msg_container">"No. But I like pie, as well."</div><div class="y_msg_container">"AS WELL AS WHAT?"</div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">Gordon</div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>