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Sitifan Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
No religion too/either
Dick Cavett: Here he is, Forrest Gump. Right here. Mr. Gump, have a seat. Forrest Gump, John Lennon.
John Lennon: Welcome home.
Dick Cavett: You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like?
Forrest Gump: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.
John Lennon: No possessions?
Forrest Gump: And in China they never go to church.
John Lennon: No religion, too?
(Quoted from the movie Forrest Gump)
Why not say "No religion, either"?
John Lennon: Welcome home.
Dick Cavett: You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like?
Forrest Gump: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.
John Lennon: No possessions?
Forrest Gump: And in China they never go to church.
John Lennon: No religion, too?
(Quoted from the movie Forrest Gump)
Why not say "No religion, either"?
Top answer
Because it didn't cross his mind. This is common enough in casual speech.
- Because it didn't cross his mind.
- This is common enough in casual speech.
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Because it didn't cross his mind. This is common enough in casual speech.
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Since John Lennon is English, not American, why did John Lennon say "Welcome home" to Forrest Gump?
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sitifanSince John Lennon is English, not American, why did John Lennon say "Welcome home" to Forrest Gump?John Lennon was English and there's no way we could know why he said whatever he said. Unfortunately we can't ask him. He said too in a similar context in his song Imagine:
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to
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