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Re: Degrees of comparation

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 11, 2001, 19:24
Henrik wrote:
> >Hi! > >I'm still here. :-) After a long while of listening... > >David Peterson <DigitalScream@...> writes: > > She should read up on Derrida. ;) In most of my languages, I have >words > > for "yes", "no" and "yes and no", the latter being used when you want to > > answer both "yes" and "no" at the same time, > >German has ,jein' for this (of course, from ,ja' and ,nein'). > >Are you being indecisive? >Yo -- nes -- perhaps!
Swedish's got _nja_ for this - cf _ja_ "yes" and _nej_ "no". Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp