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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 67 Only, Except, Too: Inclusion and Exclusion 396 / 600

The word također is almost always in Serbia and usually in Bosnia shortened to

takođe.

• Something Possibly Interesting

Why does English switch case in responses like me too, while Croatian doesn’t? It

seems that the default case of pronouns in English is the object case (a.k.a. the

accusative case). The subject case is used only when the pronoun is the single-word

subject placed before the verb in the same sentence; otherwise, object case is used

in English. This explains forms like:

You and me are going to... (not a single-word subject)

Who was it? — Me. (no verb)

Lucky me is.... (not a single-word subject)

Of course, this is not really the explanation: this is just a rule, we have described

what is going on in grammar terms, but we still don’t know why such rule applies at

all! (Due credits go to Arnold Zwicky on the Language Log.)

• Examples

This big electronic billboard on the Zagreb bus station advertises itself:

It says your ad, too, can be here, using the 2nd pers. plural of respect (Vaš).

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