0n (08 Aug 05) George Pope wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 GP> On (08 Aug 05) Cindy Haglund wrote to all...
 CH> George had the example of "Didn't you go to the theature'?
 GP>  CH>
 CH> Now to look at that you might think "didn't' would mean a negative.
 CH> But the person being asked, said Yes... and so the first person asks"
 CH> how was the show?

 GP> My example was in Japanese, in which it makes sense the way I
 GP> explained it, but when you translate literally to English, it doesnt
 GP> make the same sense -- that was the context of my point.

 Okay... yeah I remember reading about chinese translations to
English. The author said they don't have words for IIRC 'maybe'
there's no shades of gray- as I was to understand. The example was
something like if you asked someone if they had a good day. It would
either be yes or no. Period. I wish I could remember the exact text...

Cindy

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