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
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