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"Me too" or "You too"?

Hi,
With statements like:
"Nice to meet you."
"I look forward in meeting you."
Should the response be "Me too." or "You too."? Is it "me too" for the first statement, and "you too" for the second?
Regards,
Michael
  

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"? [/nq] "Nice to meet you too" is one standard response. In movies that like to have lower-class women attempt to mimic their social superiors, you will also hear "Likewise, I'm sure".

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  • [/nq] "Nice to meet you too" is one standard response.
  • In movies that like to have lower-class women attempt to mimic their social superiors, you will also hear "Likewise, I'm sure".
  • The response "Me too" is much too perfunctory, and "You too" is illogical and not idiomatic.
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Michael wrote on 09 Nov 2004:
[nq:1]Hi, With statements like: "Nice to meet you." "I look forward in meeting you."[/nq]
"look forward to"
[nq:1]Should the response be "Me too." or "You too."? Is it "me too" for the first statement, and "you too" for the second?[/nq]
"Nice to meet you too" is one standard response. In movies that like to have lower-class women attempt to mimic their
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[nq:1]Michael wrote on 09 Nov 2004:[/nq]
There was a Dilbert strip where he had AWS (Attractive Woman Syndrome) and he meet the new woman at work and when introduced to her freaks out and says "It's a pleasure to meet me. I hope you never find a live turtle in your soup."
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[nq:1]Hi, With statements like: "Nice to meet you." "I look forward in meeting you." Should the response be "Me too." or "You too."? Is it "me too" for the first statement, and "you too" for the second?[/nq]
Someone's going to tell you "The correct response is ..". That's nonsense. The phrases you wrote above, and all the phrases like them, are meaningless platitudes that are social convention
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Hi,
While I am in agreement with Mr. Cooper - i would like to add that some expressions, as pointed out by Ms. CyberCypher the teacher, are grammatically incorrect.
For example: While "You too" would be fine in response to "Nice to meet you"; "Me too" will not be. You are better off saying "My hovercraft is full of eels"
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Hi,
While I am in agreement with Mr. Cooper - i would like to add that some expressions, as pointed out by Ms. CyberCypher the teacher, are grammatically incorrect.
For example: While "You too" would be fine in response to "Nice to meet you"; "Me too" will not be. You are better off saying "My hovercraft is full of eels"
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Vivek Khemka wrote on 09 Nov 2004:
[nq:1]Hi, While I am in agreement with Mr. Cooper - i would like to add that some expressions, as pointed out by Ms. CyberCypher the teacher, are grammatically incorrect. For example: While "You too" would be fine in response to "Nice to meet you";[/nq]
It's not fine in my dialect or in any standard dialect of English I know of. "Nice to meet" is required
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CyberCypher wibbled
[nq:2]For example: While "You too" would be fine in response to "Nice to meet you";[/nq]
[nq:1]It's not fine in my dialect or in any standard dialect of English I know of. "Nice to meet" is required before the "you too" to be fine.[/nq]
Of course it is fine in standard English. It's a recognised contraction - it's understood that the whole sentence is 'and it's nice
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Jacqui wrote on 09 Nov 2004:
[nq:1]CyberCypher wibbled[/nq]
[nq:2]It's not fine in my dialect or in any standard ... meet" is required before the "you too" to be fine.[/nq]
[nq:1]Of course it is fine in standard English. It's a recognised contraction - it's understood that the whole sentence is ... - hundreds? - of other similar situations where we use similar verbal shorthand and no o
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[nq:1]"Nice to meet you too" is one standard response. In movies that like to have lower-class women attempt to mimic ... hear "Likewise, I'm sure". The response "Me too" is much too perfunctory, and "You too" is illogical and not idiomatic.[/nq]
Isn't "me, too", just wrong?
"It is nice to meet you"
"Me, too"? "Me, too" what?
Bye, FB

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