Sometimes it's for emphasis, sometimes it's because one word responses can seem rude or off-putting.
Sometimes it's for emphasis, sometimes it's because one word responses can seem rude or off-putting
Grayson Wood
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Jaxson Cooper
I need to get used to not doing this in other langauges I'm learning
Gabriel Morales
you don't
Levi Watson
Alejando Santiago.
Josiah Rodriguez
No you don't
Cooper Perez
What? Idgi.
Elijah Adams
there is another weird thing.
When someone ask "Don't you do something?", If I answer "yes" then it means that I do something.
It is really weird. You asked "Don't you" so "yes" should mean "I don't do that" and "No" means "I do that". Don't you guys think it is more logical?
Caleb Stewart
Because its more descriptive, if you don't wanna do that speak money.
Nolan Jenkins
>speak money.
Money talks
Henry Price
In Old English, double negations were *always* positive. This is all the remnants of that system.
See en.wikipedia.org
Justin Carter
You don't have to.
It's just more affirmative.
Easton Miller
There are no clear rules. In conversation we have to clarify what we mean when we respond "no" to something like "do you not eat hamburgers?"
Bentley Reed
Why when I'm speaking Chinese do I have to say part of the question back because there is no word for yes and no?
For example if someone says "Can I have that" I must say "Can have".
And if someone says "Do you like this" I must say "I like"
Why no simple yes/no?
James Gutierrez
>there is no word for yes and no
在 / 不在 is normally used for questions that don't use 是 or 有 in the main clause.
Nathan Garcia
weeb lmao
Liam Turner
you don't - it's just more explicit, use it as required