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Revision as of 07:30, 27 April 2018
It is amazing to see that in different languages, the answers of a disjunctive question can be divided.
For example,
"Don't you know it?" ＂你不知道嗎？＂
If you know it, you answer "yes", a positive word in English; but in Chinese, you should answer with a negative word "不".
It is understandable, because to answer with a positive word is to agree with the speaker's original idea, and to answer with a negative word is to oppose the negator in the question. Vice versa.
Google Translate doesn't do well on it. Please help to fill in the list. Keep the alphabetic order.
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