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Old 05-06-2018, 06:03 PM   #1
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"Yeah. No."

English, motherfucker, do you speak it?

Then, bam, right in the face.
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Old 05-06-2018, 07:51 PM   #2
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Youze guys wanna take the fun out of English.
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Old 05-06-2018, 07:53 PM   #3
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"Yeah. No."

English, motherfucker, do you speak it?

Then, bam, right in the face.
Yeah, no I'm gonna keep saying that.
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Old 05-07-2018, 05:33 AM   #4
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Words that need to be taken out behind teh woodshed and shot in the face

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"Yeah. No."

English, motherfucker, do you speak it?

Then, bam, right in the face.


But the Russians say this as well: “Da NIET!”. It’s a no. A splendidly idiomatic “no” which gets me brownie points every time I use it.


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Old 05-08-2018, 06:00 AM   #5
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But the Russians say this as well: “Da NIET!”. It’s a no. A splendidly idiomatic “no” which gets me brownie points every time I use it.


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...and if the Russians jumped off a bridge or invaded Afghanistan are we supposed to do it too?
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Old 05-10-2018, 02:25 AM   #6
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...and if the Russians jumped off a bridge or invaded Afghanistan are we supposed to do it too?
Da NIET!
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Old 05-10-2018, 06:12 AM   #7
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Old 05-10-2018, 07:45 AM   #8
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...and if the Russians jumped off a bridge or invaded Afghanistan are we supposed to do it too?
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Da NIET!
Which is exactly how this phrase should be used!
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Old 05-07-2018, 11:56 AM   #9
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An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. “In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative.”

A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
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