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I think it's relatively common in british english. Certainly, from cumbria, it sounds quite natural also. It's more spoken dialect than written. "What else do
by mjburgess 6y ago
I think it's relatively common in british english.
Certainly, from cumbria, it sounds quite natural also.
It's more spoken dialect than written. "What else do you want to do?" etc.
- pwagland 6y agoFunnily enough, to me "what else" sounds more like "what would you like to do in addition" as opposed to "what would you like to do otherwise". Certainly in Australia, "anything else with that" is quite common in shops, particularly in food shops, or pubs. Or at least it used to be be when I was there.
- quietbritishjim 6y agoSure, but if you ask for A, B and C and someone asks "what else?" then they mean "what about things that aren't A, B or C?" It's still the same basic meaning, set complement, but about things rather than logical states.
- quietbritishjim 6y agoThe question isn't so much whether "else" is used at all, but rather whether it's used as a conjunction. That's why the article author mentioned "or else": here "or" is the conjunction, so that proves "else" isn't fulfilling that role. In this example you gave: > What else do you want to do? "else" is acting like a noun rather than a conjunction (compare with "what activity do you want to do?).