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| Liface Triglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Lif Joined 5858 days ago 150 posts - 237 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Dutch, French | Message 17 of 24 17 December 2008 at 2:25pm | IP Logged |
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In the US, at least where I'm from, we just sometimes say "no" even just to agree with what someone is saying, while nodding, leaving out the "you're right" part.
This got me into trouble one time at a wedding in Germany where my friend's mother was talking about how it was nice that all these people from different countries were here, and while she was takling I was nodding, smiling and saying, "Nein, nein!" 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hollow Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States luelinks.netRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6539 days ago 179 posts - 186 votes Speaks: French*, English*, SpanishB2 Studies: Korean | Message 18 of 24 31 December 2008 at 5:02am | IP Logged |
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Funny story time:
In L'auberge Espagnole, towards the beginning, what's his face doctor wakes up Cavier and says something to the effect of: Eh Xav, ca te derangerais de sortir Anne-So aujourd'hui? C'est qu'elle connait pas trop Barcelonne, et comme tu parles un peu esagnol... and Xavier answers: Ah oui oui oui, non, non, oui oui bien sur! Where of course both 'oui' and 'non' are taken as positive answers. fun times 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5832 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 19 of 24 01 January 2009 at 9:46am | IP Logged |
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In Czech the word for yes is ano which is often shortened to no. This can lead to confusion.
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| Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 6852 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 20 of 24 01 January 2009 at 7:28pm | IP Logged |
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In Polish 'no' has several uses, but they're all colloquial. It can be used for emphasis (in front of a word, at the beginning or the end of a sentence), as a filler - a prolonged 'nooo....' makes me think of 'well....'. The English 'ummm' is 'yyyyy' in Polish.
Oh and probably the most confusing part for foreigners - 'no' means yes. This use is also colloquial but very common. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 21 of 24 01 January 2009 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
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Heh, in Russian Internet slang ыыыы (yyyy) is used like ROTFL, LOL etc :D
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| Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 6852 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 23 of 24 30 April 2009 at 3:11pm | IP Logged |
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Nie - the regular 'no' is also used as a filler. It is sort of like saying 'right?' every few words in English.
Still, the king of annoying fillers is a slurred 'you know what I'm saying", you know what I'm saying? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JayEffNova Newbie United States Joined 5635 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 24 of 24 05 August 2009 at 5:44pm | IP Logged |
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I had a Scottish friend who used to say "for sure not" all the time in response to yes/no questions. I think it was
mostly to be funny/annoying. It would usually be followed by "definitely maybe no" "hey Rhorry, do you want to eat?" "for sure not, definitely maybe.... not" "Never mind..." 1 person has voted this message useful |
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