Re: YYMMDD (was: Re: Láadan)

taliesin the storyteller wrote:

>* daniel.andreasson@vpc.se said on 2002-12-12 14:48:29 +0100
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>>tal wrote:
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>>>>Yep. They also mark dates as year/month/day in that order.
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>>>Sensible of them.
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>>Of *them*? Don't you do that in Norway?
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>(Is the affirmative here "yes" or "no"? Always forgets, N. has a third
>word "jo" to answer affirmatively here.)
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I'm an English-as-a-first-language speaker and I admit to getting it
wrong :( I have no idea. I'm pretty sure that 'yes' and 'no' apply to
concepts (agree with the negation), not questions in English. (Thus:
'Yes, we do' or 'No, we don't', not 'Yes, we don't' or 'No, we do'.) I
want yes and yeah to separate so we can be like Norwegian and Middle
(Old?) English and German and French and I actually know what answer I'm
giving...

Tristan


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