I'm going to have to stop using 'no' to affirm negatives. People keep thinking I'm disagreeing with them. Perhaps this is dying.
It is logical to confirm a neg with a neg and a pos with a pos. Otherwise you have 'yes, it's not' It's not cold today, is it? Yes, it's not
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You don't need the "it's not". It's implied with the "yes". It's because the English are terrible at maths that we have this problem.
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No, it's not. Because then you could respond either 'yes' or 'it's not' & that makes no sense.
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I will step in here to adjucate on this matter: Helen, you are wrong as far a logic is concerned.
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I am? Logically, a positive should confirm a negative?
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Yep. Consider that you are assigning a truth value to a statement.
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I once looked up how many languages affirm a negative with a negative to prove it listed English to someone who doubted & it is a minority.
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A minority? I think it must come either from repeating the statement (shortened to yes/no) or answering an implies ",is it?" question.
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We could end this all by banning negative questions.
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