I’m not so sure, my Chinese girlfriend and family said they don’t really have a yes or no

Don't use

They have them

And I’m inclined to believe them considering they are highly educated Chinese

Otherwise they would not be able to translate western works

It might not be as you think of yes or no though

Well obviously it depends on the translation

Ofc it is an equivalent

You can say the context means replying yes or no

Every nat lang translation is a form of a tradeoff

But the exact words might not be “yes or no”

It is never a 01 = 1

Yea thats my point?

You can infer the meaning is yes or no

It is more like 2.5 ~ 2.3

But it’s not the Yes or no English style

You can do it in english too

Just speak without using yes or no, ever

I feel like we are arguing over something tiny though

And I’m not fluent enough to argue it properly

Indeed

I know of that phenomenon from linguistic literature

Live by the woke, die by the woke.

Ya you might be right, could be just that they don’t use it

Cause they never needed to

But was created for translation purposes

When westerners arrived to Japan they had a hard time grasping how they interact without ever saying "no"

Yea I get that

For the brit that landed there it was unfathomable

He was there because his ship crashed btw

And he later became a samurai

🤔

Are you about to summarise the plot of “the last samurai”

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Oh wait I think I read books about this

As a kid

So how about that trump transcript <:smugon:512048583806025739>

He was an excellent ship builder, one of the best and most innovative in the West.
So when Emperor of Japan heard of his knowledge, he did everything to please this foreigner, including making him a samurai

did they release the transcript?

Yep

Moral of the story: stay in school, learn a trade, and excell at it