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From: mrz5149@rit.cs.rit.edu (M. R. Zucca)
Subject: Re: Words for yes
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In article <vbwn3br7ay1.fsf@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr>, Vincent Zoonekynd
<zoonek@DPTMaths.ENS-Cachan.Fr> wrote:

> In Japanese, hai means that you agree. It may be translated by yes or
> no depending on the question. The other way round for iie.

Huh? I certainly don't consider myself a master of Japanese by any stretch
of the imagination but I've never heard this before.

Unless you mean:

ii desu ka?   Hai.
Is it good?   Yes [it's good]

yoku nai desu ka?  Hai.
It's not good?     Yes [it's not good]

I suppose that holds true for most languages, don't you think?
Just seems to be a bad logic problem.

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