Timeline for How to reply the two different questions, "Don't you want to play with me?" and "You don't want to play with me?"
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| May 16, 2019 at 19:31 | history | edited | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2019 at 16:31 | history | protected | Mitch | ||
| Apr 8, 2018 at 17:42 | answer | added | Lambie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 8, 2018 at 16:39 | comment | added | Lambie | English does use No in implied double negatives: You don't want to go with me? No, [I don't want not to go with you]. I do want to go with you. | |
| Apr 8, 2018 at 16:24 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Mar 9, 2018 at 1:45 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 1:10 | comment | added | Lawrence | Related: Did English ever have a word for 'yes' for negative questions? | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:52 | answer | added | Robbie Goodwin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 1:27 | comment | added | Barmar | This is an area where English is somewhat ambiguous. French has "non" and "si" for the two types of negatives. | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 23:31 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Neither is incorrect. 'Yes ...' corrects the negative to a positive, while 'No ...' just refutes the negative. | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 22:38 | history | edited | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2018 at 22:21 | answer | added | AmI | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jan 24, 2018 at 20:21 | history | asked | Xiaocong Liu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |