Re: OT: Negation as the indicative standard

--- Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote:

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> OTOH, I now seem to recall reading somewhere about a
> language (in Africa?)
> that allegedly expressed negation solely by a change
> of tone (on the verb, I
> think).
>
> Doug
What about the sarcastic tone in English.  "Yeah,
sure, I believe you."  Meaning "I do NOT believe you."

--gary

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