French also has no negative equivalent ("contradictory no"). I think. It's been a while. I wonder why the contradictory no doesn't warrant its own word in either language; I always assumed that french was asymmetric and that other languages did indeed have a word for that role.
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Date: 2005-09-18 09:52 pm (UTC)French also has no negative equivalent ("contradictory no"). I think. It's been a while. I wonder why the contradictory no doesn't warrant its own word in either language; I always assumed that french was asymmetric and that other languages did indeed have a word for that role.