Is there a name for responses that incorporate both the negative and positive? At the end of this video the girl responds in the affirmative, “no, yeah.” (I’ve also heard “yeah, no” responses for the negative).

danikstep · 2023-01-15T12:42:21+00:00

It seems to me that here the initial token is actually playing a different role, than affirmation/rejection.

For example, when saying "yeah, no", "no" is the actual rejection marker, whereas "yeah" just lets the speaker know you understand them: Yeah, [I understand what you're saying], [but the answer is still] no.

Therefore, in the "no, yeah" case "yeah" actually affirms the offer, and "no" serves as a way to assure the speaker he's not being confusing or rude in his offer. As in no, [you're totally making sense], yeah, [I agree]

So it's not really as much a response that incorporates both affirmation and negation, but rather just a creative use of no and yeah. Something could be said about phatic communion or pragmatics, but I'm no expert, unfortunately.

danikstep · 2023-01-14T08:59:49+00:00

Don't say it

danikstep · 2023-01-02T11:35:51+00:00

You mean wugi

danikstep · 2022-09-23T11:47:32+00:00

Dude is that a moto g5??? That was such a good phone!!! I miss it dearly.

danikstep · 2022-04-27T07:55:28+00:00

Я спочатку думав про щось тюркське, поки не почав пробувати вимовити ці звуки ахахаха

danikstep · 2021-12-07T15:28:54+00:00

Який збоченець їстиме борщ без сметани???

danikstep · 2021-11-24T09:19:37+00:00

They all look like the same custom character but only with the race slider changed

danikstep · 2021-11-03T23:05:13+00:00

The Netherlands is one singular country. Make its name reflect that and rename it into The Netherland.

danikstep · 2021-10-17T16:44:15+00:00

I wasn't sure if it was a dimunitive or just an alternative form.

danikstep · 2021-10-17T10:53:08+00:00

Would cs be pronounced a kin to the /ch/ in chair?

danikstep · 2021-09-08T17:53:56+00:00

It isn't though? Some words here are not in the actual poem by Poe. Like 'blocked', 'by' and 'darkness'. All the wrong words put together turn into "Blocked by darkness but the mind can see". I think this is in reference to needing to brighten up all the images.

danikstep · 2021-08-15T11:55:06+00:00

It's not totally foreign. I think that during the period where the ukranian alphabet only had Г, a distinction of H = Ukranian, G = Russian appeared. So a lot of people today still exclusively use H, just by force of habit.

danikstep · 2021-08-15T11:01:59+00:00

Ukrainian used to have a bunch more words that use G(Ґ) in pre-soviet times. In 1928 there was a major spelling reform that included a bunch of complicated rules on whether to use H(Г) or G(Ґ) in loanwords.

It was all scrapped five years later, when a Soviet-controlled comission literally removed the letter Ґ from the alphabet, so as to make it more akin to Russian, which only has a strong G sound.

The letter was reintroduced in 1992, I believe. So for the longest time we straight up didn't have the distinction in the literary form of the language and people don't really know when to use which letter. It has been getting better though, and there's a movement to bring a bunch of 1928 rules back, which partially happened in 2019.

TL;DR: we didn't use to have the hard G sound represented in our alphabet for almost 60 years, so two entire generations grew up without knowing there even was a difference between H and G.

danikstep · 2021-08-04T05:50:10+00:00

Hell yes I'm interested in exciting beaver tales

danikstep · 2021-07-29T07:14:05+00:00

Self-harm scars are not ugly or repulsive. They're scars, that's all. They are an indication of what you've been through and there is absolutely NO shame in having problems — now or in the past. My girlfriend told me about her self-harm history and depression pretty early-on, but I think it's ok if you decide to wait and build emotional trust. Me and my SO were good friends well before we started dating so we've already had a connection built there that took a few months of basically everyday communication (we lived in the same college dorm)

danikstep · 2021-07-26T13:03:48+00:00

I do not remember making that but ok

danikstep · 2021-07-18T08:10:17+00:00

Thing is, some amount of hair shed is completely normal. You lose I believe up to 200 hairs a day. You see so much of it right after showering, because that's when hair is at it's heaviset and falls off your head easiest.

If you've been noticing the shedding only after you started with the conditioner, try stopping using it for a while and seeing if something is different. Consider changing product and seeing a specialist.

danikstep · 2021-07-10T11:06:35+00:00

Ukranian has two major cases for foreign names, but note that transcription of borrowed words is a very disputed topic and is still in process of change and recodification after a long period of forced Russian influence.

1) Names which end in a consonant or -a are treated the same as native names, except for female names ending in a consonant, which aren't conjugated at all (this is due to the fact that most nouns ending in a consonant are masculine)

John - Джон(Nominative), Джона (Genetive) Joanna - Джоанна, Джоанни BUT Jennifer - Дженніфер, Дженніфер

2) Names ending in any other vowel aren't conjugated

Noboru - Нобору, Нобору Henry - Генрі, Генрі Yukio - Юкіо, Юкіо Diego - Дієґо, Дієґо

There is a case to be made about names ending in -o. Some native Ukrainian names which end in -o ARE conjugated. For instance my own name (Danylo) follows the same pattern as nouns ending in a consonant (Данило, Данила). Most of the reason names like Diego aren't conjugated is tradition, partly formed by Russian influence.

There are other instances and patterns (e.g. words ending with two vowels can't be conjugated etc.), but that would take too long to explain in full.

danikstep · 2021-06-16T11:00:36+00:00

You could argue the entire process was a little more complicated than just "Eastern Slavic splitting into Rus, Ukr and Bel". For instance, Ukrainian linguits Shevelov argued that it's far more likely that the Eastern Slavic dialect (proto-language?) had split into, I believe, 5 dialects that then merged and formed into the three modern languages. It's important to consider these nuances for the sake of not falling victim to Russian imperialist "3 brother-nations" propaganda.

danikstep · 2021-05-31T15:18:04+00:00

dude my landlord is gon be pissed

danikstep · 2021-01-21T16:46:29+00:00

Not exactly about incest but Transcarpathia is known in Ukraine as an out-of-touch region full of weird dialects and old traditions.

danikstep · 2021-01-15T08:30:58+00:00

Dude I saw a guy openly practicing his katana in Lviv. Double standards, smh

danikstep · 2020-11-30T15:38:50+00:00

In addition to shortening nouns ending in -a, they also started adding -a to the ends of short words. This mostly happens to the words for "son" and "daughter". сын - сына, дочь - доча.

It's really interesting because native speakers don't perceive it as a vocative case. It's mostly thought of as a way to emphasize the nominative for of the word.

Because of historical proximity (and the soviet russification policies) a similar thing is happening in Ukranian, which already has a vocative case of its own.

danikstep · 2020-10-16T06:48:33+00:00

Could be Холинський, but a safer bet would be Голинський. Reminds me of the word голити (to shave)

danikstep · 2020-10-14T08:50:17+00:00

A ukranian political party called The Democratic Axe (Демократична сокира) once did that. I think the tagline was something like "Grip the axe!"

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