Post #2904743
2026-03-25 11:20 UTC
@xocolatli@lingo.lol @lexiconista@mastodon.ie Celtic ones generally use verb based responses
"Are you going out" "I am", "Will you be angry" "I will not". There is an emphatic yes (ie) and an emphatic no (actually a not-yes) (nage). Modern Welsh speakers use Ie/Nage a lot more than older ones.
Cornish is similar but even historically it seems to have been common to use ea/na rather than matching verb forms.
na also works more like !(expression) in C than a no.
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@xocolatli@lingo.lol 2026-03-25 11:33
@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @lexiconista@mastodon.ie Chinese also repeats the verb for confirmation or negates the verb: Aren't you going? (disagree), go/ (agree), not go 你不去嗎？ （對）,（我）不去。 （不對）, （我去）去。
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@xocolatli@lingo.lol 2026-03-25 11:37
@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @lexiconista@mastodon.ie "na also works more like !(expression) in C than a no." "No" and "not" are two entirely different things, even if they are both pronounced "no" in Spanish and other Latin languages