Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 11:35:52 -0700

From: Rudy Troike RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET

Subject: Re: Too in initial position



Too, it's a nice day for swimming in Southern Arizona. No, despite the

preceding, I don't think I have ever used it, and consider it limited to

written style, marking a certain preciosity. It definitely conveys a

different feeling than the more pedestrian "also", and thus is clearly a

marked usage. "And too,..." seems more colloquial, in past personal

narrative, but rather old-fashioned: "And too, we were poor in those

days and couldn't afford a horse." Perhaps because 19th-century

schooling exposed students earlier to more high literature than is now

the case in our dumbed-down curriculum. "Then, too,..." is sometimes

mildly adversative: "Then, too, we seemed to have enough money to go..."

Rudy Troike