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| Ojorolla Diglot Groupie France Joined 4964 days ago 90 posts - 130 votes  Speaks: French*, English | Message 1 of 33 01 October 2012 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Could anyone please tell me if this has already been discussed on this forum:
In English, you deny or agree with a negative sentence like follows: Didn't you have breakfast? - Yes, I did. Didn't you have breakfast? - No, I didn't. But in Korean, we have: Didn't you have breakfast? - No(It is not so), I did. Didn't you have breakfast? - Yes(It is so), I didn't. Do you know any languages that don't follow the English example? Edited by Ojorolla on 01 October 2012 at 2:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 33 01 October 2012 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Russian works like Korean.
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5055 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 3 of 33 01 October 2012 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 4 of 33 01 October 2012 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yup, from what I was taught да/нет validate the statement. I can look up the reference in
my textbook for you if you like. Unless this has changed? Dutch is like English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5055 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 5 of 33 01 October 2012 at 3:08pm | IP Logged | ||
When I was small, I used to answer in a Korean way and wondered why people did not understand me. Basically if you answer нет without special emphasis and adding other words, it will mean a negative statement. Although you can say Вы не сделали чего-то? Нет, сделал. And you cannot answer да to this question, you have to repeat the predicate. It’s always the safest way. There is a joke. A referendum is held in Belarus. Вы не против пожизненного избрания Лукашенко президентом? Да, не против. Нет, не против Edited by Марк on 01 October 2012 at 5:12pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 6 of 33 01 October 2012 at 3:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I still try to just use it the Korean way hehe.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 7 of 33 01 October 2012 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I see. But in principle it does work that way, except, except. I knew that textbook
sucked, but sure. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Haksaeng Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6197 days ago 166 posts - 250 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 8 of 33 01 October 2012 at 4:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't really think the Korean and English are opposite.
In English, "Didn't you have breakfast?" actually means "You had breakfast, didn't you?" And so the answer is either "Yes I did" or "No I didn't" But if someone asks me "Did you not have breakfast?" It means they believe I missed breakfast. And I'd reply, "Yeah, I didn't have time." or "No, I had it." 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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